Aasif Mandvi

M. Night Shyamalan defends The Last Airbender; compares to Transformers

Posted 11 years ago

I am willing to give M. Night Shyamalan a little leeway for films after THE VILLAGE. THE LADY IN THE WATER was not great but it also wasn’t awful. It becomes more difficult with movies like THE HAPPENING, but there...

Insight into the failure of The Last Airbender & why M. Night isn’t to blame

Posted 12 years ago

M. Night Shyamalan delivered some solid cinema with (arguably) his first three films, and quickly turned into a joke afterwards. LADY IN THE WATER underperformed, THE HAPPENING was one of the most unintentionally funny films I’ve ever seen, and then...

Forget the Oscars, here are your 2014 Razzie Award winners

Posted 12 years ago

12 YEARS A SLAVE is your 2014 Best Picture according to the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences, but the real winner is MOVIE 43. The ensemble sketch comedy film starring everyone from Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet to...

Awfully Good: Movie 43

Posted 13 years ago

Jason Movie 43 (2013) Director: Various Stars: A bunch of famous people afraid to admit it No. Someday someone will make a documentary on MOVIE 43. They’ll trace the history of the idea, chronicle the number of farts written in...

Awfully Good: The Last Airbender

Posted 13 years ago

Jason The trailers for AFTER EARTH have done a pretty good job hiding any mention of director M. Night Shyamalan’s name. And with good reason… The Last Airbender (2010) Director: M. Night Shyamalan Stars: Noah Ringer, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel...

Review: Movie 43

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A deranged writer forces a studio executive to listen to a rambling, borderline insane pitch for a movie made up of eleven unrelated stories. REVIEW: Since the title MOVIE 43 doesn’t mean anything (the anthology’s mastermind, Peter Farrelly, has...

Red-band featurette for Movie 43 starring Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Gerard Butler and everyone

Posted 14 years ago

MOVIE 43, the new ensemble comedy featuring everyone and their sister, is hard to decipher.  I can’t decide if it looks hilarious or like an absolute mess, but probably both.  I don’t know, it’s just too weird to call.  Having...

Poster for the ensemble comedy Movie 43 exposes itself

Posted 14 years ago

I just don’t know what to make of MOVIE 43, the ensemble comedy starring just about everyone. The red-band trailer(s) we’ve seen certainly have some funny bits, but something feels off about the whole thing.  Let’s face it, you may...

The red band trailer for Movie 43 is packed with stars acting like hilarious a-holes

Posted 14 years ago

The green band trailer for MOVIE 43 aired at the end of Tosh.0 tonight and I laughed a few times, especially at the Terrence Howard basketball scenes. Comedy Central posted the full red band version online and it feels like...

First images from the ensemble comedy Movie 43 featuring Kate Winslet, Terrence Howard, Emma Stone, and more

Posted 14 years ago

While I am not exactly sure what the title MOVIE 43 means, I have a feeling it is going to be pretty funny. The anthology comedy will feature 25 shorts from 12 different directors including Patrik Forsberg, Peter Farrelly, Elizabeth...