David Wain’s – Wet Hot American Summer (2001) Released under the radar and still no more than a cult following today, David Wain’s feature debut is a silly, absurd, insane, and bizarre film that pokes fun at cliché through the world of a Jewish summer camp that is about to end it’s summer run and […]
Read more "The Decade’s Best – Wet Hot American Summer (2001)"Just got done watching the series premiere of ABC’s new mockumentary family comedy and I was very impressed. Focusing on a family with just about everything, the Dad has just married young and she is a fiery Latino with a young romantic son, a gay couple that just adopted a baby girl from Vietnam, and […]
Read more "Modern Family on ABC is Hilarious!"When it was announced that Peter Jackson, a small time and rather unknown Kiwi director, was going to be taking over the reigns of one of the most sought after and daunting film tasks in the history of cinema many didn’t expect a whole lot. But one came out of this man’s mind is an […]
Read more "The Decade’s Best – The Lord of the Rings (2001-2004)"Steven Soderbergh’s latest is a unique picture that spins a pretty serious and messed up character study into a comedy by applying a silly tone and ramping up the absurdity that this actually happened and the results are pretty good for the most part. Mark Whitacre is a bit out of his element. He is […]
Read more "Review: The Informant!"Robert Siegel makes his feature debut with a low budget dark comedy that is an interesting character study of what someone might do for the team they love if taken to the extreme, but might have needed a different direction for the lead to make it more convincing. Paul is a New York Giants fan. […]
Read more "Review: Big Fan"Both of these are easily in my top five most anticipated films left this year and both studios just bombarded us with a ton of print art for both films featuring all the characters. Don’t mistake these films for kids movies either, suitable for children for sure, but just for kids, not at all. Both […]
Read more "Fantastic Mr. Fox & Where the Wild Things Are Character Posters"Steven Spielberg’s – Munich (2005) Steven Spielberg continued his successful run of historical period pieces with this spy/thriller of sorts following the Israeli reaction to 1972 Munich Olympic hostage massacre that not only captures the tension of assassination, but perfectly conveys the right vs. wrong of the Israel/Palestine conflict. The film opens amid a flashback […]
Read more "The Decade’s Best – Munich (2005)"Ang Lee’s latest is his lesser effort as of late as he starts off on the right foot but slowly dissolves into a bit of a mess with no narrative to speak of for the second half. Elliot Teichberg is a want a be artist living in New York City, only to see most of […]
Read more "Review: Taking Woodstock"This cute little independent picture has a good idea at its core, but has a bit too much cliché and uneven work by its lead to really stand out above being an average comedy. David Mitchell is a ladies man and he has a plan and he sticks to it no matter what. Not looking […]
Read more "Review: Play the Game"Quentin Tarantino’s latest is the long in development WWII epic that is not really a war film but a dialogue heavy affair like all of Tarantino’s work and the result is slow burn plot that builds amazing tension through fantastic characters all culminating in an explosive final act that could potentially re-write WWII history. Split […]
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Middle of the Row 