Reviews by Jennifer

• November 16, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

I tried to consider Home Alone: The Holiday Heist from a kid’s perspective. Would I have liked this movie if I were seeing it for the first time as a nine or ten year old? I don’t think so. For starters, everyone in the movie is stupid, and that’s...

• November 16, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

I’m not the sort of person who expects every Christmas movie to be jolly and upbeat, but All is Bright is just about the dreariest bit of cinema to wrap it’s dirty paws around any holiday ever, and I’ve seen One Magic Christmas, where basically everybody dies and then...

• November 9, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Horror

If you’ve already tackled the 1118 minutes of Crystal Lake awesomeness that makes up Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection, then Crystal Lake Memories, the 400 minute documentary on the making of this iconic series will actually seem pretty short. As someone who’s never even been a huge fan...

• October 31, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

For no particular reason, I had it in my head that Last Vegas was about four veteran actors knocking over a Vegas casino. I understood their characters to be former tough guys from New York, childhood best friends who reunite for one last hurrah. In my head, that last...

• October 31, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Documentary

There’s something about watching old comedy clips that’s comforting and irrelevant all at once. A lot of the jokes aren’t exactly topical anymore, but they serve as a weird slice of the times. The four disc set The Best of (the Original) An Evening at the Improv offers up...

• October 30, 2013
• Books

Though I rarely go back to them, I’m a sucker for books about movies. It’s fun paging through them to see which ones you’ve seen, deciding whether or not you agree with the commentary, and stumbling upon things you’ve never heard of. It’s a great way to learn trivia...

• October 27, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Romance

Wow, who knew The Sound of Music was preceded by a weirder, crappier movie about the Von Trapps, called The Trapp Family? I’m still not entirely sure how this movie made it into my hands, but I can see why so few have had the pleasure of seeing it. The...

• October 26, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

I’m not usually a huge sci-fi fan, but something about John Carter looked like fun from the get-go.  Indeed, the movie gets off to a rollicking start as Carter (Taylor Kitsch) entrusts his fortune and his tomb to his young nephew, Ned (Daryl Sabara).  He leaves behind a journal...

• October 23, 2013
• Action, At Home

Having experienced the legend that is Machete, I was super excited for the sequel, Machete Kills. My boyfriend and I waited for opening day with rising anticipation and then…I got a migraine. And it seemed as though I may have been solely responsible for the movie tanking on opening...

• October 22, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Family

We’ve all had those awkward moments where someone just shows up and won’t to go away. There’s something at once disarming and bewildering about these characters, and they often leave us wondering where the heck they came from and why they chose us. Even so, the fact that they...

• October 19, 2013
• At Home, Family, Fantasy, Music

I was ten years old in 1987, and the one thing that paralleled my love for playing with my dollhouse was Christmas. In fact, I loved Christmas so much that at all random times of the year I would decorate the dollhouse, pretend it was December, and put on...

• October 12, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

The premise of The Ringer is so politically incorrect that you feel like laughing at it could easily buy you a one-way ticket to hell: go directly to hell, do not pass GO, do not collect $200, and please take a seat next to Johnny Knoxville. Well, I’m pleased...