by Jeff Michael Vice | May 22, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
In his big-screen comedy career, Adam Sandler has been paired with everyone from Jennifer Aniston (2011’s Just Go With It) to an obnoxious kid (1999’s Big Daddy) to his comedian-actor buddies (the two Grown-Ups films, 2010 and 2013) to himself (2011’s Jack and Jill,...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 15, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
In terms of its focus, Million Dollar Arm is lot more like Jerry Maguire (1996) than it is like The Rookie (2002), or even Slumdog Millionaire, an Oscar-winning 2008 drama that, on the surface at least, it would seem to have a lot in common with. And that’s a shame,...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 8, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
In Dr. Frankenstein fashion, Neighbors attempts to graft large portions of Parenthood (the original, 1989 movie version) onto similarly large portions of National Lampoon’s Animal House, the 1978 hit film that really popularized the raunch comedy genre. Or to be more...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 6, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
What you need to know about Fading Gigolo: The romantic comedy stars John Turturro as a middle-aged male prostitute. And Woody Allen plays his best friend and “pimp.” Either you find that idea funny or you don’t. And if you do, you’ll probably enjoy this most peculiar...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 5, 2014 | Reviews, What's Hot
At one point in Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, Bernadette Peters pronounces her lines in such a robotic, uninterested and seemingly confused fashion that you’d almost swear that she was reading them for the very first time. To be honest, the digitally animated...
