Ready for a good time? Great! That just might happen for you if you go see Sausage Party. But be warned. This movie is not a love-it or hate-it film; it’s just not. Sausage Party is a have fun or don’t-have fun film. But if you go into it with the right mindset, trust me, my friends. You will have fun. But heed this warning: if you can’t get past the profanity, you need to walk a...[Read More]
The literary works of Roald Dahl hold a special place in my heart. I’ve read them all multiple times throughout the years – some of them becoming favorites and an easy way to escape back to my childhood as an adult. Most people levitate towards books like James & the Giant Peach and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, but not me. Ever since Mr. Cook’s 4th Grade Class, my Dahl of c...[Read More]
It feels so odd to have an Angry Birds film in 2016. It was an app, whose target audience was supposedly children, created in 2009 and, by 2012, it had sold 12 million copies. Throughout the years, there have been many variations of the app, but the main point of the game always dealt with angry birds and shooting those same birds at some sort of target. Now, ten years later, is the feature-length...[Read More]
Judd Apatow is the maestro of the dick joke, the current reigning king of gross-out humor, and the guy who brought you all those hey-bro-let’s-get-drunk-and-get-laid movies. But Apatow’s secret weapon, and the likely reason for his broad appeal, is that he’s admittedly a family-values guy at heart. From The 40-Year-Old Virgin to This Is 40, the binge drinking and drug use and sexcapades in Apatow ...[Read More]
It seems that every year, one or two independent films successfully make the jump from film festivals and art house theaters to the multiplexes. This year, that movie is writer and director Craig Johnson’s The Skeleton Twins. Starring Saturday Night Live alums Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as estranged twins that come together after a botched suicide attempt, The Skeleton Twins provides audien...[Read More]
It’s finally March, the weather is getting warmer, and the season of big movies has begun. Best of all, Oz the Great and Powerful, my first highly-anticipated film of the year, finally comes out this Friday. In the meantime, this week’s new Trailer Trashin’ column examines our first look at the animated sequel Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. Premise: After the disastrous foo...[Read More]