Jonah Hill as Schmidt and Channing Tatum as Jenko in 22 Jump Street. PHOTO COURTESY COLUMBIA PICTURES Mismatched partners, police officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) have been handed a ridiculous assignment – they’re to enroll as college students in order to track down the source of a fatal drug that’s sweeping the […]
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Lego joy
A scene from The Lego Movie. PHOTO COURTESY WARNER BROS. PICTURES With Hasbro having turned G.I. Joe and Transformers into successful franchises, I suppose it was only a matter of time before they built a feature around those little plastic blocks from Denmark that I cuss at every time I step on one with bare […]
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Cloudy 2 an undercooked concoction
After being pleasantly surprised with 2009’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I was hoping that the same sense of invention and humor that made the first entry in this series so charming, would be present in the follow-up. Alas, it was not to be. This undercooked sequel plays like a cake that hasn’t been […]
