Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
If you enjoyed the surprisingly successful Jumanji reboot, you’ll have a lot of fun with this follow-up.
Night School (2018)
You could forgive Night School’s clichéd, uneven storytelling had it boasted even a couple good jokes …but no.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
Jumanji’s fictional, fantastical setting lets the film really spread its wings in terms of silly action. It just needed to be funnier.
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)
While Captain Underpants is colourful, comedic and … competent, it’s just not my kinda scene.
Between The Rock and a Hart Face: Central Intelligence
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a great movie star in search of a great movie. Central Intelligence isn’t quite it, but it is a lot of fun watching The Rock show off his goofy side. Shame about the spy stuff.
Ride Along 2 (2016)
Director, Tim Story returns for another comedy-fueled ride-along with brothers “in-law” James (Ice Cube) and Ben (Kevin Hart). Right from the word go, we are reminded of the characters and their roles in the franchise – James, the tough-guy lead detective and Ben, the goofy sidekick seeking approval. In Ride Along 2, we follow the pair of…
Shifting Gears: How the Rise of the Fast and the Furious Franchise Represents the Changing Landscape of Modern Blockbusters
Looking back at The Fast and the Furious (in case you’re puzzled by the title, that’s the first one, made in 2001) from 2015, the film looks a lot like a stepping stone. An unassuming genre picture that shared more than a bit in common with the preceding year’s Gone in Sixty Seconds remake, its…
Top Five (2014)
Hollywood has never really known what to do with Chris Rock. That’s been increasingly apparent over the last decade or so, with the so-called “the funniest man in America” finding work as either a cartoon zebra in the Madagascar series or as Adam Sandler’s Friend in The Longest Yard, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan…
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