Here’s a teaser poster for the upcoming film Predators, which I received in my inbox earlier today.
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It is perhaps unfortunate that John Hughes is most recognized for his teen comedies, because it was his relatively “adult” films, namely Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck, that were his greatest achievements as both writer and director. Of course, this is not to undermine his progression — and revolution — of the teen [...]
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The casting in I Love You, Man is a stroke of relative genius. Paul Rudd and Jason Segel are two of the funniest — and most likable — comedians working in film today, and for all of I Love You‘s vulgarity, these two leads keep the film afloat. The sincerity of their performances translates even [...]
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In the Loop is an unusually good and funny film from a usually tepid and rather unfunny genre. After enduring an onslaught of mediocre films centered around the war in Iraq, 2009 seems to have finally brought audiences closer to cinematic resolution: first Kathryn Bigelow’s invigorating The Hurt Locker gave us a fresh insight, and [...]
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Truth be told, Bruno was always the least funniest of Sacha Baron Cohen’s creations from Da Ali G Show, if only because he was smug and self-aware in comparison to his partners in crime: Ali G was dumb and ignorant. Borat was a fish out of water. But Bruno played his ambushes with a smirk, [...]
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