• June 29, 2017
• Animation, At Home, Comedy

I very much enjoyed The LEGO Movie, from that damn catchy earworm theme song “Everything is Awesome!” to the subversively funny and delightful script. Hands down, the scene-stealer from...

• June 29, 2017
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Set 20 years after the original, and reuniting all of the original players, the film centers on prodigal son Renton (Ewan McGregor), who returns to Edinburgh two decades after...

• June 4, 2017
• At Home, Comedy

There might be a decent short film in here, as the entire plot of Fist Fight is laid out in the first 15 minutes: It’s the last day of...

• March 6, 2017
• At Home, Comedy, Mystery, Television

As a single man with few responsibilities, Harry Hooperman is accustomed to living life on his own terms. He goes to work and plays his sax, but he can...

• February 24, 2017
• At Home, Comedy, Television

Dean Sanderson (Rob Lowe) is The Grinder, or at least he used to be. We meet Dean when he’s more of an out of work actor who used to...

• January 20, 2017
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

I read that the sweet film Beginners was director Mike Mills’ ode to his father. Now he gives us 20th Century Women, a “thank-you note” to his mother, who...

• January 6, 2017
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Set in the early 1960s, the film follows a trio of black women working in NASA’s computing division. Or, more accurately, as NASA computing division (back before machines did...

• December 24, 2016
• At Home, Comedy

If you watched the trailer and thought, “OMG dude, that looks hiLARious and awesome!”, you’ll probably really, really enjoy the movie. If, like me, you watched the trailer and...

• December 9, 2016
• At Home, Comedy

Humor in everyday office life has been sorely represented in entertainment. Contrary to what Hollywood shows us on TV and in movies, we are not all doctors, lawyers, and...

• October 31, 2016
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

After retiring from boxing, American Sean Thornton returns to Ireland and buys the home where he was born. It’s a town so stereotypically Irish that you almost expect to...

• October 29, 2016
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

So eventually I snuck to the library and got the film for the typical three-week checkout, which left me enough time to let it casually sit in the middle...

• October 27, 2016
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Son of Rambow is the most exhilarating, heart-wrenching, and surprising little movie I’ve watched in a long time, and I don’t think that’s only because it’s about me. It...