Review: ‘The Change-Up’
Charles Dickens was half right in his imminently quotable introduction to A Tale of Two Cities because The Change Up, …
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Cowboys & Aliens
The mash up concept starts off with a nod to The Bourne Identity, when a man (Daniel Craig) soon to …
Review: ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love.’
Cal (Steve Carell), if objectively observed from afar, would immediately call to mind a string of Steve Carell characters, the …
Friends With Benefits
Friends With Benefits attempts to make fun of romantic comedies, while exploiting the same formula. It very nearly succeeds thanks …
Review: ‘A Little Help’
How quickly can recent history pass the threshold into a period, a point that we can evaluate with the necessary …
Winnie the Pooh
Disney tapped Stephen J. Anderson (writer-director of Meet the Robinsons) and Don Hall (writer of Tarzan and Meet the Robinsons) …
Zookeeper
Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison production company trots out Kevin James as a zookeeper in charge of a rowdy menagerie of …
Larry Crowe
As an early military retiree working for a Walmart knockoff (UMart), middle-aged company man Larry Crowne (co-writer and director Tom …
Monte Carlo
High school grad Grace (Selena Gomez), boring stepsister Meg (Leighton Meester) and Texas perky best friend Emma (Katie Cassidy) embark …
Review: ‘Buck’
In the preface to the 1975 edition of Animal Liberation, ethics philosopher Peter Singer shared the story of an evening …
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