Category Archives: comedy

It’s a doomed love, and that’s the best kind: A little V-day message from Gnomeo and Juliet

The Bard is certainly no stranger to silver screen reincarnations of his teenage double-suicides. But a movie like Gnomeo and Juliet he couldn’t have seen coming. [Click here to read my latest Eye Weekly review] Related Articles Doug & the … Continue reading

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About a Boy

    Christine: You will end up childless and alone. Will: Well, fingers crossed, yeah. So, what could About a Boy be about? Well, with Hugh Grant on the cover, it’s safe to say it would be about love, it … Continue reading

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The night three became one: Why you should give The Human Centipede a chance

The horror started before the film did: the movie was sold out. This, after my panicked marathon trying to outwalk all the other horror fans trying to get to the end of the line. I actually managed to overtake more … Continue reading

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So Inception is ripped from . . . a Scrooge McDuck comic book?

No, you are not dreaming within a dream within a dream. Sorry to break it to you Inception fans, but this is too good of a find. Couldn’t he have just optioned the thing instead of draining it of all … Continue reading

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Stories of serial killers and spies | 500 Movies, 365 Days (Identity) / Now Playing (Salt) |

Rotten Tomatoes tells me that a lot of you have flocked the theatres to see that actress with the lips and the hair that make you want to lecture God about equality and justice. South of the border, Americans have … Continue reading

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|500 Movies, 365 Days| Movie 3: Garden State — planting idiosyncrasies

You won’t find a garden-variety cast of characters in Garden State. Peopled with oddballs in their 20s, this film satisfies my appetite for character-driven belated coming-of-age stories. It doesn’t shine as a whole, but many moments call attention to themselves … Continue reading

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| 500 Movies, 365 Days | Adaptation — It’s Howard Roark, but funnier

Director: Spike Jonze Writer: Charlie Kaufman Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton Do I have an original thought in my head? My might-as-well-be-bald head? It’s been a Charlie Kaufman-esque kind of mornings for me ever … Continue reading

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| Now Playing | I now pronounce you husband, wife and Cyrus

Cyrus ♥♥♥♥♥ Starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener Directed and written by Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass “Many a man before you, in his dreams, has shared his mother’s bed.” – Jocasta to her husband and, as … Continue reading

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| Now Playing | Food fatale film thinks its a romantic dramedy

Ofelia Legaspi (Spoiler alert, though, in this film, the plot isn’t something you can’t predict.) I guess you can say that Letters to Juliet and the Bard’s fictional heroes do have something in common: their fatal flaws. The greater tragedy, … Continue reading

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