Comedy Reviews

Comedy

Knight and Day (2010)

Knight and Day (2010)

Tom Cruise stars as Roy Miller, a CIA agent who may or may not have gone rogue, but who’s nonetheless on the run from his former partner, Fitzgerald (Peter...

Vickie
Control Alt Delete (2008)

Control Alt Delete (2008)

Tyler Labine (whom I recently saw in the fantastic horror spoof Tucker & Dale vs Evil, which was why I picked up this film) stars as Lewis a lead...

Linda
Toy Story 3 (2010)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

As a Pixar superfan, I was very much looking forward to this sequel, which took some eleven years to get to the screen, and I was not disappointed. The...

Vickie
Solitary Man (2009)

Solitary Man (2009)

I sometimes have a tough time investing any emotional energy into characters I don’t like. No, let me take that back… everyone loves a good villain, say a Hannibal...

Linda
Kick-Ass (2010)

Kick-Ass (2010)

Imagine a world, much like our own, where people love super-heroes, but, well, super-powers don’t exist. Sounds like reality, doesn’t it? In the opening scene, a super-hero with metal...

Linda
Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)

Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)

After the success of the original Air Bud movie, which was about a dog who could play basketball, and the boy who loved him, the powers that be I’m...

Linda
Valentine's Day (2010)

Valentine’s Day (2010)

Ostensibly, casting every bankable star in Hollywood in the same movie is a great idea. Who doesn’t love it when even the extras in a film turn out to...

Vickie
When in Rome (2010)

When in Rome (2010)

Not surprisingly, then, this would-be rom-com is neither romantic nor particularly funny, and is precisely the kind of movie you’d expect to hit screens at this cinematic dead-zone time...

Vickie
A Good Year (2006)

A Good Year (2006)

Even more surprising is that the film is helmed by big-budget tough guy Ridley Scott, who last teamed with Crowe for the decidedly less-genteel Gladiator. Based on the book...

Jennifer
A Serious Man

A Serious Man

First of all, what the eff with the first 10 minutes or so of the movie? I almost popped out the DVD to check the label on the movie...

Linda
All About Steve (2009)

All About Steve (2009)

Bullock is Mary Horowitz, a crossword-puzzle writer for a Sacramento newspaper, who’s meant to be a quirky, socially inept intellectual but who, instead, comes off as an annoying and...

Vickie
Away We Go

Away We Go

Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski play Verona and Burt, a unmarried 30-something couple who fit together like a pair of old shoes. They are obviously on the long-term path...

Linda