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Nice Guys: Black Humor
Shane Black famously wrote the script for Lethal Weapon while still in his early 20s and then spent the better part of a decade...
Small Engine Repair: Quick Fix
They’re selling Small Engine Repair as the new movie about toxic masculinity. It is that, but I think that’s the wrong way to approach...
ParaNorman’s Activity
All right! This is how I like my animated kids’ movies — intelligent, funny, and scary enough to keep you up at night. ParaNorman...
Rutherford, Yager Make Changes
Side by side, Burt Rutherford and Tim Yager look like a mismatched comedy duo, best friends who couldn’t look any more different. The two...
Thoughts on the Prices of Movie Tickets
We moan about how the ticket prices at our movie theaters are constantly going up, but let's face it: They’re still a bargain compared...
Prometheus: “Get It Out of Me!”
To answer your first question about Ridley Scott’s Prometheus: Yes, it is a prequel to his 1979 sci-fi classic Alien. The director has hemmed...
Shiva Baby: Danielle in the Lion’s Den
Whenever you think that Jewish humor is tapped out, someone else comes along and hauls something new up out of the mine. Shiva Baby...
The Top 10
This year’s movies brought us Life, Love, Youth, and Joy, as well as a bunch of films about women that wound up dominating this...
R.I.P., Isao Takahata
From overseas comes the sad but not unexpected news that Japanese anime director Isao Takahata has died at the age of 82. As all...
L.A. Lawless
The uneven career of Jack Black has had some delirious highs (The School of Rock) and gruesome lows (Gulliver’s Travels), but this comic actor...
