Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
A lot of stupid, a lotta love, and some craziness ain’t so bad. When Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) discovers that his wife (Julianne Moore) wants to end their marriage, he reluctantly faces the unwelcome...
View ArticleDinner for Schmucks (2010)
Maybe I need to start having dinners where funny people show up and do funny things. Be a lot better than my past couple of Thanksgivings. Tim Conrad’s (Paul Rudd) boss hosts a dinner party where he...
View ArticleDespicable Me (2010)
Now I see why every kid is in love with this movie and those little yellow things too. Villainous Gru (Steve Carell) lives up to his reputation as a despicable, deplorable and downright unlikable guy...
View ArticleSeeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Boning Keira Knightley would probably be on my list of things to do if the world was going to end in three weeks. Set in a too-near future, a man searches for a meaningful connection as humanity’s last...
View ArticleHope Springs (2012)
Face it, old people bone. Many years of marriage have left Kay (Meryl Streep) wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones). When she hears of a famed relationship...
View ArticleThe Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
Rabbit out of a hat? Boooooooooring. Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) have been life-long freinds that both share a love of magic, and have ruled the Vegas strip for...
View ArticleDespicable Me 2 (2013)
If I see anything that’s small and yellow, doesn’t matter what object it is, I’m going to smash it. I’m not kidding. When we last left ex-villain Gru (Steve Carell) and the his three, adopted-kids were...
View ArticleThe Way, Way Back (2013)
Just swim the angst away. Duncan (Liam James) is at the peak of his teenage angst. He’s 14, living with his divorced mom (Toni Collette) and stuck being with her boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell) for the...
View ArticleAnchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
If only the world of journalism was this cut-throat, or entertaining to be around. Everybody, meet San Diego’s top news anchor Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) and come and see how good he looks. Yeah,...
View ArticleAnchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
Waiting nine years for a sequel to Anchorman?!?! Kind of a big deal!! After he and his fellow wife/news anchor Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) run into a rough patch that causes a...
View ArticleFoxcatcher (2014)
If this is about wrestling, where are all the tables, ladders, and chairs? After winning gold at the 1984 Olympic Games, pro wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) doesn’t seem to have much going on in...
View ArticleAlexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
Next time, when you’re making a film geared towards kids, go for a smaller, more comprehensible title. On the eve of his 12th birthday, Alexander Cooper (Ed Oxenbould), nothing seems to be going right...
View ArticleMinions (2015)
At least Hollywood’s not discriminating against the minions. Just yet. Many, many years before these little yellow guys got shacked-up with Gru, they were left to fend for themselves from the beginning...
View ArticleFreeheld (2015)
Love one another. Also, stop being dicks. Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore) was a loyal, dedicated and passionate cop in Ocean County, New Jersey. She was respected and adored by her peers, was...
View ArticleThe Big Short (2015)
Now I literally have no clue what to do with my money. The financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 will always and forever be considered one of the most heart-breaking, tragic moments in recent memory. But...
View ArticleCafé Society (2016)
Hollywood was so much better when people drank all the time. Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg) is a Jew living in New York during the 30’s. He’s not very inspired with his life there and even if he can join his...
View ArticleBattle of the Sexes (2017)
Boys vs. Girls. Didn’t this stuff stay in the playground? It was 1972 and Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) was on top of the tennis world. She was #1, breaking all sorts of records, and oh yeah, had a...
View ArticleLast Flag Flying (2017)
Can’t get old. Just can’t. Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell), Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston) and the Rev. Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne)...
View ArticleBeautiful Boy (2018)
Drugs are bad, mmkay? Nic (Timothée Chalamet) and David Sheff (Steve Carell) seem to have the best father-son relationship that kind of duo could ever have. They’re close, tell each other everything,...
View ArticleVice (2018)
Man. What a dick. Dick Cheyney (Christian Bale) had no clue just what the hell he was going to do with his life. When he wasn’t working his dead-end job as a construction-worker, he was getting...
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