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Bad Moms Christmas, A

A Bad Moms Christmas is one of those plot-by-numbers sit-com movies that tries hard (perhaps too hard) to reproduce the elements that made the earlier film successful. As such, it never strays far from its safe place and, although it offers oc...

Run Time: 1:45
U.S. Release Date: 2017-11-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Scott Moore, Jon Lucas
Cast: Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, ...
Betty Lucas - Movie professional

A discussion of how George Lucas' approach to making and marketing "Star Wars" contrasts with the style used by Disney.

Note: This was originally designed to be a single post but, by the time I finished writing it, I realized it was too long to be reasonably read in one sitting. So I'm splitting it into two pieces. Part two will be posted in about one week.By now, I...

Here's a link to Part One, in which I discussed two of the three most common complaints about George Lucas. Part Two picks up with some comments about the third "sore spot."Finally, there's the whole merchandising situation. In some circles, Lucas ...

Change-Up, The

The Change-Up has designs of being the next big raunchy comedy of the Summer of 2011, following on the heels of Bridesmaids, The Hangover Part II, Bad Teacher, and Horrible Bosses. However, while there's sufficient profanity, sex, nudity, and excre...

Run Time: 1:51
U.S. Release Date: 2011-08-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: David Dobkin
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, ...
Cold Light of Day, The

Tag line #1: "An action-packed international thriller starring Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, and soon-to-be Superman Henry Cavill." Tag line #2: "A box office disaster with perhaps the most uncharismatic action hero of the decade in a preposte...

Run Time: 1:33
U.S. Release Date: 2012-09-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Cast: Henry Cavill, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Echegui, ...
Fast & Furious 6

"Mindless entertainment": that's a phrase that will be repeated often enough in association with Fast & Furious 6, which exists purely to showcase how idiotically over-the-top action sequences can become when annoyances like gravity are tossed to t...

Run Time: 2:10
U.S. Release Date: 2013-05-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, ...
Four Christmases

This is what happens when a successful indie documentary filmmaker gets sucked in by the Hollywood system. As one can guess from the number of writers involved in this project, Four Christmases is wildly uneven, veering from screwball comedy to wo...

Run Time: 1:22
U.S. Release Date: 2008-11-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Seth Gordon
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, ...

Star Wars was not my first love. By the time it came out in 1977, I had already enjoyed flirtations with baseball, astronomy, dinosaurs, and monster movies. I had developed an unrequited crush on Jessica Lange. I had spent countless afternoons ...