Amy Poehler as Maura Ellis and Tina Fey as Kate Ellis in Sisters. PHOTO COURTESY Universal Pictures What with their comedy Sisters being released on the same day as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, you can’t help but wonder what its stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did to doom their film to such a […]
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More to Admission
About 15 minutes into Paul Weitz’s fine new film Admission, Princeton admissions officer Portia Nathan (Tina Fey) is put through the ringer by a group of exceptionally smart high schoolers who question the need for higher education and wonder why the esteemed institution she works for remains behind the times in its stance on certain […]
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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 […]
