Comedy
Writer-director Tim Burton has a way of making us sympathize with monsters. Whether it’s Beetlejuice or Edward Scissorhands, Burton makes freaks and geeks into lovable, misunderstood creatures. He tries to work that magic...
While Jim Field Smith’s previous film, She’s Out of My League, didn’t get rave critical reviews, we loved it anyway. So we were excited to see the Smith’s latest effort, Butter. While the film is loosely based on real butter ca...
Look, we’re just as surprised as you. A teen musical is not very 40-something hipster and we went into it convinced the whole show choir thing was as tired of a premise as vampires. And, it’s a pretty predictable young love sto...
Comedic actor Adam Sandler used to be box office gold. His films that came out during the ’90s and early ’00s were huge hits. And he even successfully tried his hand at drama with 2002’s Punch Drunk Love. But somehow he lost hi...
It’s hard to imagine that a movie about phone sex could be boring. But that’s the case with For a Good Time, Call…, the new comedy about two women who run a successful phone sex business. A hit at this year’s Sundance Film Fest...
Life after college hasn’t been good to Jesse (How I Met Your Mother’s Josh Radnor), who’s barely making things work in New York where he has a desk job in college admissions. He has so little going on, in fact, that when his co...