items tagged with Paul Rudd
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2011-08-28 23:41:16
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK
When a horror movie is really working, you tend to feel a tightening in the gut – a means of preventing you from audibly reacting to the intensity. When a horror movie is really not working, at least at the cineplex, you also tend to feel this clenching of the stomach muscles, but not because you’re trying to avoid screaming. It’s because you’re trying to avoid laughing.
Read More About Hide And Speak: "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark," "Our Idiot Brother," And "Sharks 3D"...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2010-12-19 23:59:46
HOW DO YOU KNOW
There’s actually quite a bit of good to be said about writer/director James L. Brooks’ How Do You Know, not least of which is that it’s nowhere near as unbearable as Brooks’ last offering, 2004’s Spanglish. Unfortunately, that’s not the same as saying the movie itself is good.
Read More About Shallow Brooks: "How Do You Know" And "Tron: Legacy"...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2010-08-01 18:25:16
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
In general terms, explaining what director Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right is "about" is a pretty easy task: 18-year-old Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and 15-year-old Laser (Josh Hutcherson) - the children of a contented and devoted lesbian couple (Annette Bening's Nic and Julianne Moore's Jules) - arrange a first meeting with their shared sperm-donor father (Mark Ruffalo's Paul), and through several more meetings, watch as his casually disruptive presence gradually, irrevocably alters their family dynamic. Yet while this is an accurate, if simplified, plot synopsis, it doesn't come remotely close to explaining what this buoyant, original, altogether extraordinary dramatic comedy is actually about.
Read More About Guess-Who’S Coming To Dinner: "The Kids Are All Right" And "Dinner For Schmucks"...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2010-03-22 13:28:45
THE GHOST WRITER
Calling Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer "lighthearted" isn't entirely accurate, as the movie is a moody suspense thriller concerning high-level government conspiracies, and its color palette seems to shift only from gray to very dark gray. Then again, this is a Polanski film we're talking about - coming from the man who gave us Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion, Chinatown, and The Pianist, it's practically Gidget Goes Hawaiian.
Read More About Roman’S Holiday: “The Ghost Writer,” “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid,” “The Bounty Hunter,” And “Hubble 3D”...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2009-06-21 18:17:57
THE PROPOSAL
"All right, you've got five minutes to sell me your pitch. Go."
"Well, it's a romantic comedy - I'm thinking about calling it The Proposal - and it's about this bitchy, selfish book editor in Manhattan who learns deeper values and becomes a better person after falling in love with her assistant."
"That doesn't sound very funny."
Read More About ... And They All Lived Wealthily Ever After: "The Proposal" And "Year One"...
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