Since ending his days on "Saturday Night Live, " Will Ferrell has staked out a niche for himself playing essentially the same character in various professions and costumes. Whether anchoring the news, driving a racecar or playing basketball, the [...]
A light-hearted action adventure set in the sunny Bahamas is something that will always catch my eye. If it involves treasure hunting and Matthew McConaughey, I'm sold. Therefore I was eager to take a look at Warner Home Video's Blu-Ray version [...]
Nothing draws mass appeal to a lighthearted comedy about white collar crime than a sour economy. The "Ocean's Eleven" redux and its sequels apply themselves to the lower and middle classes who derive envy in the sheer chutzpah of pulling [...]
"Semi-Pro" is the latest Will Ferrell sports comedy directed by first timer Kent Alterman. Very loosely based on actual occurrences when the ABA merged with the NBA in 1976, the film is much more concerned with lampooning the era's [...]
David E. Talbert's first Hollywood feature film "First Sunday" is the type of film that has an audience already targeted even before pre-production. These types of films have a built-in target audience that it aims to please, but sometimes [...]
I remembered seeing "Anger Management" when it first arrived on DVD a few years ago, but I did not recall many details about the film per se so I decided to give the film another check-up when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment sent over the [...]
In pre-code 1930s Hollywood, before the Hays Office and the Catholic Church began enforcing a system of self-censorship on Hollywood films, sex was a frequent ingredient in popular movies. And nobody brought sex to the movies like Mae West. A vaudevillian [...]
"27 Dresses" is the latest romantic comedy directed by Anne Fletcher, (who also brought us the recent travesty called "Step Up"), starring Katherine Heigl as Jane Nichols, a young woman who has an almost psychopathic obsession with [...]
When I read the synopsis of "Delirious" I knew I was a movie I had to check out. A small indie production starring Steve Buscemi as a paparazzo – I just had to see it, and I popped in the disc when it arrived on my desk from Genius Products. [...]
Director Jason Reitman brings us the surprise hit comedy "Juno" fresh off the heels of another Oscar nominated feature called "Thank You For Smoking" from 2005. Every once in a while a comedy comes along that defies expectations, and [...]
