Comedy

This trailer for I Give It A Year looks like the best romantic comedy in a long time

Posted 14 years ago

To put it bluntly, romantic comedy is the shittiest genre. Per capita, there are more bad romcoms than there are good ones. We have gone entire years without having a decent romantic comedy movie, which is a shame. Katherine Heigl,...

New trailer for the animated film Epic, starring the voice talent of Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, and Chrisoph Waltz

Posted 14 years ago

From the creators of ICE AGE and RIO comes this new animated epic, called, uh, EPIC. Starring the voice talents of Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, Beyonce Knowles, Aziz Ansari, Christoph Waltz, Josh Hutcherson, Blake Anderson, Judah Friedlander, Steven Tyler, and...

C’mon Hollywood: Stop being so lazy, comedians!

Posted 14 years ago

This past weekend I decided to check out THE WATCH, starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade. Although I wasn’t frothing at the mouth to see it, I have enjoyed the work of the cast members in...

Wait, there’s a sequel to The Smurfs? They were surprised too. Here’s the teaser trailer.

Posted 14 years ago

I must have blocked this out of my mind. A new teaser for THE SMURFS 2 has landed on Facebook. Even the little Smurfy in the clip is having some trouble remembering that a sequel was made. On a positive...

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...

The JoBlo Sunday Night Movie Chat: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Posted 14 years ago

It’s been awhile since we chatted about a comedy in The JoBlo Sunday Night Movie Chat. You could even say it’s been too long. Well, I’m going to fix that this week. With Thanksgiving coming up next week, there is...

First trailer for The Heat starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy brings the comedic, er, heat

Posted 14 years ago

Last time director Paul Fieg led a female-driven comedy he churned out the mega-successful BRIDESMAIDS.  Now, the director returns to that formula with THE HEAT, starring Sandra Bullock and BRIDESMAIDS-alum Melissa McCarthy.  It’s smart casting, to be sure, as Bullock...

To sequel or not to sequel, that is the question: Big Trouble In Little China

Posted 14 years ago

Most anyone who has seen BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA knows it to be far better than it has any right to be.  Those same people are also aware that it veritably rewrote the entry on “fun” in the Annals...

Awfully Good: Bio-Dome

Posted 14 years ago

Jason Bio-Dome (1996) Director: Jason Bloom Stars: Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, Joey Lauren Adams A horror movie where people are locked in a confined space with Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin. I think BIO-DOME is Pauly Shore’s best movie. I...

Review: Price Check

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A bored but content office drone for a supermarket chain finds his life shaken up with the arrival of a new boss, a high-strung, filter-free L.A. transplant. When she insists upon his participation in a new marketing plan to...

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