Amazon.com Even within the subgenre of grab-bag comedy, Disaster Movie sets a new bar for free-associative lunacy. To what degree there is a plot, it’s vaguely stolen from Cloverfield: A handful of twentysomethings try to rescue someone in a city assaulted by an incomprehensible threat–i[...]
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February 4th, 2010 - 1:21 pm § in Film
G-Force (Single Disc Widescreen) (2009)
Amazon.com G-Force just might be the best Jerry Bruckheimer action film in many a moon. The film is exuberant, and its premise–don’t think big for an animated caper film, think small–brilliantly upends the more-bigger-faster trope of American action films… with cute, little, [...]
January 31st, 2010 - 11:24 am § in Film
The Proposal (Single Disc Widescreen) (2009)
Amazon.com Rom-com favorite Sandra Bullock and the affably charming Ryan Reynolds’s superb chemistry turn The Proposal from otherwise standard romantic-comedy fare to one that is entertaining and sure to garner laughs. Margaret (Sandra Bullock) is a workaholic, tyrannical book editor (reminis[...]
January 28th, 2010 - 2:27 pm § in Film
Bee Movie (Widescreen Edition) (2007)
Amazon.com There aren’t a lot of choices in a bee’s life: a bee attends a few days of school, graduates from college, and chooses a job in the hive that he’ll labor at for the rest of his life. Barry (Jerry Seinfeld) is different from his best friend Adam (Matthew Broderick) and al[...]