Posted on April 10, 2016 at 10:33 am
As I watched Melissa McCarthy in “The Boss,” I thought of the much funnier Troop Beverly Hills, starring Shelley Long as a pampered socialite who becomes the leader of a Girl Scout-type group of girls and turns out to be unexpectedly effective in cookie sales and wilderness survival. Her rival leader is played by Betty …
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Posted on April 9, 2016 at 8:00 am
Polygraph has taken 2000 movie scripts and broken them down by gender, showing that in, for example Disney films, men have more than 60% of the lines, even in films like “Mulan,” which has a female lead and is explicitly about a female’s wish to have the opportunities and responsibility of the males. Women had …
Posted on April 8, 2016 at 5:04 pm
Adam Levine’s new song, “Go Now,” is featured in the new John Carney film about a group of teenagers in 1980’s Dublin who start in a band.
Posted on April 7, 2016 at 5:44 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language, some sexual references, drug use, and disturbing behavior |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol, drugs, smoking (by a young teenager) |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Fatal car crash, guns, dangerous and destructive behavior |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | April 8, 2016 |
As the title suggests, this is a movie about taking things apart, literally and spiritually. And Jake Gyllenhaal gives a performance of shattering intensity as Davis, a finance executive whose wife is killed in a car accident. At the hospital, he puts five quarters into a vending machine, which fails to deliver the peanut M&Ms …
Posted on April 7, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Here is what Judd Apatow and Paul Feig know that Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone do not: a character can be hilariously obnoxious or endearing but not both, even when played by the irresistible McCarthy. Apatow and Feig have made the best use of Melissa McCarthy’s endless comedic talents, and it is instructive to see …
