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Posted on Saturday December 22, 2012
Anyone unfamiliar with the Jackass collection (a prior feature-length “movie” -– really a collection of skits –- and a series on MTV) will definitely not want to go into the boys’ second ...
This is not a movie in the conventional sense of the word. There is no story and there are no characters. It is not a documentary because it features stunts created just for the movie. What it i...
A Gulf War veteran whose injuries have left him with an uncertain memory walks along a highway then stops to help a mother and daughter whose car has stalled. He gets the car started, but the moth...
I'm pretty sure that Jane Austen never thought of including a lesbian jumping out of an airplane in any of her books, and yet somehow that scene fits in just fine in this story of six people who ge...
In Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot, Estragon and Vladimir wait for someone (God?) who never arrives, evoking the absurdity and ...
Hard-core Kevin Smith fans (I don't think there are any other kind) will find this just the movie they were waiting for. It's a love letter to his characters and to his fans, a sort of movie equiva...
Of course Jeff (Jason Segal) lives at home. Just about everyone lives at home; that's what "home" means. The thing about 30-year-old Jeff, though, is that he still lives at the home he never-qu...
"Jennifer's Body" is not scary enough for horror and not knowing enough for commentary on horror.
"Hell is a teenage girl," says Needy (Amanda Seyfried of "Mama Mia" and "Big Love"). And she shou...
Kevin Smith is the writer/director of some of the most cheerfully profane and wildly politically incorrect movies of all time, including Clerks, Dogma, and Chasing Amy. His characters -- and his s...
Josh Brolin plays Jonah Hex, a man transformed by loss in a fantasy western set just after the Civil War, based on the series of comics and graphic novels. The war is over in the United States, b...
Why do we want what we want? I don't mean world peace or for our school's team to win the NCAA championship, but why do we want a particular brand of shoe or phone or perfume? Is it because we th...
There is a moment in last year’s "The Tao of Steve" in which Donal Logue charms Greer Goodman – and the audience, too – with his appreciation for the 1970’s cartoon series "Josie and the Pu...

It's time for the q-word again. Every year, it seems, there is some...
The worst thing about this movie is not how dumb it is, or how much talent it wastes. The worst thing is not how crude it is or how ugly the humor (more accurately, intended humor) is, and how cyn...
The good news: no one in this movie has sex with an old lady or gets stabbed in the foot. So Adam Sandler is making some progress. And Jennifer Aniston continues to be a lovely screen presence, w...
Many romantic comedies have a Sleeping Beauty theme, but few as literally as this by-the-book but enjoyable trifle.
Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon) is a dedicated doctor who has no life outside...
There’s a reason that they call comedies like this one “sophomoric.” It is because they are designed to appeal to high school sophomores who are just beginning to go out on dates. For the g...