SPOILERS AHEAD You’re in Denver. Someone in Florida steals your identity. What do you do? If you’re Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman), you embark on a journey that involves throat punches, car chases, gunfire, snakebites, and a dead hobo’s pants. The victim of Identity Thief is the stereotypical American protagonist: a middle-class husband with 2.5 kids. (Literally. His wife is pregnant with [...]

Don’t let the title of my article fool you, I don’t think that Seven Psychopaths is going to be horrible or anything. I actually think it’s going to be quite amazing. I mean, it couldn’t have a more incredible cast. I stumbled upon this gem as I was searching through the Coming Soon trailers on my IMDB app. The only thing [...]

As some of you might remember from last week, The Watch left me yearning for some more substantial entertainment. I vowed I was going to see something that enlightened me, impressed me, surprised me. Then I remembered The Campaign had been released; I immediately reneged on my vow. I’m sure my fellow Will Ferrell aficionados will not hold this decision [...]

For one reason or another, I continue to take a mild interest in the work of Ben Stiller. I suppose it all started with cult classics like Heavyweights, Reality Bites, and  Zoolander. I admired his total commitment to buffoonery; he seemed to have a knack for portraying zany characters. While  it’s true that he still dedicates himself to silliness, I cannot [...]

I’ll admit it. I am a bit of a movie snob. I prefer indie darlings over blockbusters, understated character studies over action-packed thrillers. My favorite directors are Wes Anderson and Stanley Kubrick, two hipster-approved auteurs.While these examples support my snobbery, I still own a few DVDs that are just begging to tell of my low-brow teenage years. These flicks cannot [...]

When I was a 16-year-old, my best friend’s parents signed up for DirecTV. I remember spending time at his house watching channels like Cartoon Network and the Sci-Fi channel until the wee hours of the morning. I was enthralled by the programming available to him and felt envious of the hundreds of channels he had at his disposal compared to [...]

Diablo Cody does it again. Except in Young Adult she trades in a kooky, pregnant teen for a kooky, thirtysomething author, Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron). The film, directed by Jason Reitman, opens to a montage of Mavis’ daily routine. She wakes up with a Kardashian-esque reality show on her TV and last night’s makeup on her face. She shuffles to the [...]

While some might argue that A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is the greatest of the Thanksgiving holiday films (slim pickings, eh? Why does Thanksgiving get the shaft, here?), I am firmly in the camp that says no other Thanksgiving movie needs to exist, because we have the John Hughes’ classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Many factors make this such an excellent [...]