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  • Busy Doing Nothing – Episode 1 Up!

    Hello All, Those of you who know me know I’ve been working on a web series for some time. The pilot is now up!  It’s a comedy in the vein of “Arrested Development” and “Knocked Up” about life after graduating college, two friends try to retire on their graduation gifts but encounter major difficulties. You…

  • Judd Apatow’s Best and Worst Movie

    Funny People Review A fairly drastic departure for Judd Apatow, Funny People is overlong, rambling, unfocused and also sometimes moving, thought-provoking and maybe even just a smidge deep. Adam Sandler is actually quietly a very strong dramatic actor, a fact known to viewers of Punch-Drunk Love and Reign Over Me. Compared to those two movies…

  • Update Double Pack- 500 Days + Orphan

    I’ve been slacking on updating lately, busy with shooting my web series and otherwise writing/doing coverage. So to make up for lost time here’s a double pack of reviews. Orphan, AKA Deliciously Evil Orphan Review Say what you will about Orphan and there’s plenty you could say, such as: -It’s got one late game quease…

  • Bruno Will Be Less Succesful Than Borat, Here’s Why

    Bruno Review Watching Bruno I felt the strange sensation of failure wafting off of it, at least in how it affected me personally. And if anything I am a pretty strong target audience. I’m not easily shocked by homosexual imagery and I love Borat, so Baron Cohen’s humor certainly doesn’t really offend me. But for…

  • A Bit Boring, Bottom Line

    Public Enemies Review Listen, Michael Mann made Heat and he can pretty much coast for the rest of his career and I would still think he’s a genius. But really in many of Mann’s films there’s a sort of clinical closeness that’s distancing, he’s not the type of filmmaker that you’d expect to see a…

  • Breaking Bad’s Cuddly Cousin

    Hung Review Watching HBO’s new series Hung it’s difficult to shake the feeling that AMC’s Breaking Bad is currently mining similar territory to much deeper and stronger effect. Both shows feature washed-up, middle-aged protagonists who are currently dying inside as they teach high school. Like Bryan Cranston’s Walt White, Thomas Jane’s Ray Drecker has a…

  • Virtuality (TV)-Review, Analysis of Fate

    Virtuality Review/Analysis of Fate I read Variety almost daily and watch plenty of TV, but I wouldn’t even have known the TV movie/pilot Virtuality existed were it not for it being on Hulu’s homepage. It’s a sci-fi movie that was meant to be a TV pilot, about a group of astronauts on a 10 year…

  • Transformers Needs To Chill Out

    Transformers Box Office Commentary Transformers 2 has grossed $387 million worldwide to this point, according to boxofficemojo.com In 5 days. That’s crazy talk. The film got mostly negative reviews and recently this article came out http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090621/film_nm/us_transformers saying Bay had complained about the marketing of the film, though as the article notes it seems he later…

  • Better Than You Might Expect

    Year One Review Coming off the heels of The Hangover isn’t doing Year One any favors, as it looks positively amateurish by comparison. That being said it’s a perfectly pleasant time at  the movies, with a threadbare story that does cause it to drag but enough laughs to get you through. As he did in…

  • Reheated Denzel

    The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 Review Denzel Washington plays an MTA worker chatting with John Travolta’s subway hijacker in The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 otherwise known as the JV team version of Inside Man. How it’s Similar to Inside Man 1. Denzel vs. Hostage Taking Criminal Mastermind Except instead of a coolly cold and eloquent…