Emily Blunt
Movie Review: The Five-Year Engagement
The Five-Year Engagement has all the stuff great romantic comedies are made of. It sports a superb cast and side-splitting consistent laughs through-out, with plenty of memorable one-liners that will keep you smiling for days after. The unforeseen chemistry between the two main love interests really does work baring the practicality of them fitting together being so seemingly mismatched. The film ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Looper Sports a Confusing Premise in a Terrific Teaser
Another week, another column-sized dose of trashing a trailer. On the docket this time is the first teaser for writer/director Rian Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi action film Looper. Premise: In the future, time travel will be invented, but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When mobsters in 2072 want to get rid of someone, they send the victim back to 2042, where hired gu...[Read More]
Movie Review: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Don’t let the title fool you. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is not a documentary about globetrotting Western fishermen casting their rods in various Middle Eastern oases. Rather, it’s an entertaining romantic comedy/drama directed by Lasse Hallstrom featuring excellent performances from Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt. Dr. Alfred “Fred” Jones (McGregor) is an uptight and nerdy British fisheries expert...[Read More]