The Big Short movie review: first thing we do, let’s kill all the bankers
An infuriating yet entertaining look at the “other guys” of the 2008 financial crash. You will want to weep. While you’re laughing! *sob*
Other Guys
Daddy’s Home movie review: floundering fathers
Clichés about good dads and bad boys go beyond the cheap and obvious and into the insulting. There’s nothing unexpected or even mildly amusing here.
Get Hard movie review: go directly to jail
All the comedic and visual elan of an amateur YouTube fratboy prank, including nonstop rape jokes and rampant homophobia. Are you laughing yet?
question of the day: Has there ever been — and can there ever be — a positive depiction in movies or on TV of an accountant or tax auditor?
To most Americans, “April 15” has a ring of terror to it. So is it any wonder that in American movies and TV it’s almost impossible to find positive depictions of people who deal with high finance, or — heaven forfend — of an IRS auditor…
question of the day: Why did ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ bomb?
It’s one of the biggest bombs of the year. Why?
wtf: ‘The Other Guys’ insults Wall Street, which is nothing but kind and noble and beneficient
About those ‘Other Guys’ closing credits…
cinematic roots of: ‘The Other Guys’
In *The Other Guys,* Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are ordinary NYPD detectives trying to move out of the shadow of two superstar detectives, while also trying not to kill each other. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
The Other Guys movie review: cops and bunglers
It’s all absurd and overblown and — most importantly — consistently so through to the end.
question of the day: How do you cope with ‘cinematicus interruptus’?
I’m stealing today’s question directly from Peter Martin at Cinematical, because it’s simply too perfect.
