• November 21, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

Delivery Man is one of those movies that pushes all of the right buttons when you’re watching in a dark theater with a bucket of popcorn in your lap....

• November 21, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

Jason Sudeikis stars as David Clark, a petty drug dealer who finds himself in hot water with a major drug trafficker. He owes roughly $83,000 and without a penny...

• November 19, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Remember those Fridays before the start of Christmas break where your teacher would basically plan a whole day of fun stuff to do, usually including festive art projects, baked...

• November 17, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

I’m never sure whether I should admit that I totally didn’t get a children’s movie. It either means I’m simple and have no attention span, or it’s a red...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• October 27, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Drama

What a stroke of luck for the filmmakers to have Felicity Huffman as the lead in Transamerica! Cast by director Duncan Tucker just before Huffman began filming the pilot...

• October 25, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

Barnyard introduces us to a community of farm animals that are known to party hearty as soon as the farmer turns his back. But this is no ordinary farm—and...

• October 16, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Romance

The Mostly Unfabulous Life of Ethan Green is based on a comic strip that is so widely read that I’ve never even heard of it. Judging from the sample...