I have a feeling that if you were to press Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, the writers and directors of The Way Way Back, they’d freely admit that there’s nothing remotely original in their film. Yet another coming-of-age movie that hits all the familiar tropes, it focuses on an alienated teen who ultimately finds his […]
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Likable characters, inventive visuals buoy Despicable 2
Perhaps the most surprising thing about Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud’s Despicable Me 2 is that it seems far less ambitious than its predecessor. Sporting little in the way of character development as well as a fairly standard plot, the film flirts with being a throwaway exercise throughout. With a running time of 98 minutes, […]
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Wonderstone encourages us to be amazed
My obsession with film began at an early age, and I got my hands on every book I could find on the subject at the local library. It was my father’s fault that I had gotten hooked on cinema, and while he had no objections to my mania, he warned that if I learned how […]
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Stood up by Date Night
Some things look like a can’t lose proposition on paper. Surely the teaming of TV superstars Steve Carell and Tina Fey in a big-screen comedy must have looked like a no-brainer to 20th Century-Fox. Unfortunately the film they financed, Date Night, turns out to be less than a sure thing. It wastes the talents of […]
