[Click below to hear the audio version of this review which aired on WAMD 970 AM.] [audio:http://www.daggerpress.com/wp-content/uploads/Crazy-Stupid-Love-movie-review.mp3|titles=Crazy Stupid Love movie review] With a title that gets straight to the heart of the matter, “Crazy Stupid Love,” makes for a surprisingly funny romantic comedy. A lack of restraint to one story line works both for and […]
Weekend Movie Review: ‘Dinner for Schmucks’
(Merie Weismiller Wallace/Paramount) This weekend, Paramount Pictures invites you to a Dinner for Schmucks. If I were you, I wouldn’t be so quick to RSVP. Paul Rudd plays Tim, an earnest financial analyst hoping to fill a recently vacated upper-level position. His boss (Bruce Greenwood) is all but ready to give it to him, too, […]
Weekend Movie Review: Despicable Me, and Playing Catch-Up
Hello, good readers! You may have noticed I’ve been absent from these parts the past few weeks, so let’s get back up to speed with the movie world, shall we? First, a new release: the animated Despicable Me, from Universal Pictures. The year has featured a robust slate of block-busting animated fare—from Dreamworks’ lovely How […]
Movie Review: Date Night
Date Night (20th Century Fox) As the current reigning king and queen of TV comedy (pending George Lopez’s request for a recount), Steve Carell and Tina Fey can basically do no wrong. They could sit in an empty room reading aloud from the dictionary, and we would all be unhealthily amused. So is Date Night […]