Aubrey Plaza roars in the film within a film. “Black Bear” is a different kind of independent film, because of how it distinguishes between scenes and filming the actual scenes. This could […]
Black Bear
Half Brothers
Half of it is funny, while the other half is tedious. “Half Brothers” is a Mexican-American version of “Planes Trains & Automobiles” and “Due Date.” Mostly “Due Date,” because the goofball passenger […]
Superintelligence
Melissa McCarthy’s first A.I. comedy is not as intelligent as it should have been. Ben Falcone has guided his wife Melissa McCarthy about 4 times in his career. He also made “Tammy,” […]
The Croods: A New Age
This delayed animated sequel evolves with excellent visuals, silly antics, and well-meaning characters. The first “Croods” movie from 2013 was made on a budget of $135 million, and it was a great-looking […]
Happiest Season
Christmas with the perfect family threatens the well-intended lesbian romance. In a recent releases of LGBT movies, Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan had different emotions but connected well in the period drama […]
The Buddy Games
Booze and “F” bombs don’t make this comedy a winner; they makes it a loser. Let me make a distinction. “Tag” was one of the worst comedies I’ve ever seen, because of […]
Freaky
This body swap horror comedy goes for the kill. We’ve all seen movies about switching bodies around. For example: there were both versions of “Freaky Friday” with Jodie Foster switching bodies with […]
The Climb
A friendship becomes complicated in this weird, but humorous comedy Sony Pictures Classics and Monmouth Arts occasionally offers a special screening of one of their films. “The Climb,” which is set to […]
Operation Christmas Drop
The true meaning of Christmas is presented in the form of a romcom. I’d give you my usual complaint about how Christmas movies always have to arrive on DVD and Blu-Ray in […]
Holidate
Let’s not make this an annual tradition, shall we? The new Netflix holiday romcom has a cheesy title. “Holidate” is that name. It means you have a date for the holidays with […]
