Alan Arkin

What you are about to read is more of a serious warning, than anything else. Have you ever wanted to un-see something? For those of us that hold the all-star cast of Stand Up Guys in the highest esteem, your image of each of them could be quite possibly changed forever. I envisioned greatness as I pictured Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin together in a gangster movie! This would-be co...[Read More]

Continuing with the dual director-actor role that brought him success with The Town (2010), Ben Affleck has hit another home run with Argo, a drama-thriller that recounts the daring CIA-backed rescue of six Americans who managed to escape the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as Iranian militants loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini stormed the embassy on November 4, 1979, and ended up holding 52 Americans hostag...[Read More]

What happens when you take a few formulaic cinema tropes and add loads of blue humor? You get director David Dobkin’s latest film The Change-Up starring Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, and Olivia Wilde. Sure, you’ve seen the basic premise before in movies like Big, Freaky Friday, The Hot Chick, 13 Going on 30, and 17 Again (to name just a few), but The Change-Up is probably the most vulg...[Read More]