No Jack Quaids were injured during the making of this film. I praise action comedies that are either actually funny and entertaining or seriously misunderstood. In fact, when I slammed last year’s […]
Novocaine
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Woo-Hoo! We have ourselves a Daffy and Porky movie! Some of the most delightful Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoons I’ve grown up include “Tick Tock Tuckered,” “Baby Bottleneck,” “The Prize Pest,” […]
Mickey 17
A cloning experiment with laughs and great visuals. Bong Joon-Ho deserved that Oscar for “Parasite,” and “Mickey 17” is his first entry in years. It’s riveting that, unlike some movies which shall […]
Adult Best Friends
Real BFFs make a real movie with laughs and truth. I got into a conversation with my friend the other night about how the horror romcom “Heart Eyes” didn’t connect with audiences […]
Riff Raff
It makes a killing of words and bullets. What makes “Riff Raff” the latest in a series of Tarantino-inspired films are its choice of characters, how they use their dialogue, what needs […]
My Dead Friend Zoe
A consistent dramedy about a solider who lost her wisecracking friend. So we start off with two army friends serving in Afghanistan who sing to Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” have some fun being themselves, […]
Ex-Husbands
These boys need some family therapy, and we do care about them. We start at a movie theater when the dentist Peter (Griffin Dunne) finds out that his father Simon (Richard Benjamin) […]
Old Guy
The chemistry between the three leads works, but the screenplay runs out of bullets. We begin and close with the main character partying like he’s in a Gaspar Noe movie. The amazing […]
The Monkey
This monkey isn’t a toy; it’s a bloody funny Stephen King gorefest. “The Monkey” is based on the Stephen King short story which was published as a booklet included in Gallery Magazine […]
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
This lovable sequel brings Renee Zellweger’s character back on track. The last “Bridget Jones” film “Bridget Jones’s Baby” was on my list of the Worst Films of 2016 for being so desperate […]
