Saturday Night Live has had a slew of sketches that have made the leap to the big screen, stretched to feature length with varying success. The best example of a film that worked from SNL skitdom is The Blues Brothers, with other relatively entertaining ports including Coneheads, and MacGruber. And there have been more than…
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How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) – Review
I’m a big fan of the first How To Train Your Dragon movie. It has great flight sequences, great characters, amazing music (I’ve played this song too many times to count), and well, it’s just an overall great movie. But do we really need a sequel? Is this just some sort of cash grab playing…
Uncle Buck (1989) – Review
When looking at John Hughes’ body of work, there are so many classics to choose from. Most people will call out Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, or Sixteen Candles when discussing the films he directed, and those are all great films. For my money though, the film that gets the least love is…
Filth (2013) – Review
Edinburgh police detective Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy – X-Men: Days of Future Past) is after the promotion of a lifetime. This sergeant is nothing short of a bad lieutenant; however his problems extend much farther from on-the-job. Based on the novel from Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), Bruce is a drug using, alcohol addicted sex fiend on…
Evan Almighty (2007) – Review
With Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming epic Noah about to hit theatres, I thought it would be nice to take a look back at a very different take on that particular Bible story. The big question here is can a $200 million dollar comedy hope to recoup its cost? My guess is that if said project involves…