Horrible Bosses 2 movie review: the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad sequel
It’s not funny, only its villains speak truth, and its putative heroes are now the horrible bosses… though the movie doesn’t seem to realize that.
Jason Bateman
2014 preview: only movies left underived
Here are the few films coming in 2014 that are not sequels, remakes, reboots, or based on a stage show, the Bible, young-adult novels, comic books, cartoons, or — someone make it stop — toy lines.
Bad Words redband trailer: bee with a sting
Will it be Bad Santa, or bad Adam Sandler?
Identity Thief (review)
There’s a bone-deep heartless cruelty at play here…
question of the weekend: If you could do a Freaky Friday switcheroo with anyone, who would it be?
It could be a real person — your first grade teacher, a glamorous movie star or famous athlete, maybe your own sibling — or it could be a hypothetical someone: perhaps a person doing a job you’d love to try, for instance…
Horrible Bosses (trailer)
This could be good. I hope this is good. Jason Bateman might preredeem himself for The Change-Up with this…
The Change-Up (redband trailer)
If Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds are actively hoping to piss away their charms, they’re both doing excellent jobs of it.
Paul (review)
What if you and your most superbly geeky bestest friend ever met an alien? I mean a real life honest-to-Carl Sagan extry terrestrial. What if? You would plotz. You would. Like Nick Frost’s Clive does here, you would giggle like a loon and then faint, out cold from the sheer splendidness of this happenstance. I know I would.
trailer break: ‘Paul’
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost together again? Hoorah! The alien is a geek, too? Umm, okay. Jason Bateman as Fox Mulder? Hoorah? Anal-probing jokes? Oh, dear.
question of the day: What is the most inappropriate setting and/or story for a romantic comedy you can think of?
You can use existing source material or invent your own scenario. And don’t forget to tell us who’ll be starring!
