She plays Isabel, a nurse from Sweetwater, Texas, who impulsively quits her job because she’s just as impulsively married one of her patients, George (Jim Hutton), a Korean War vet with a serious case of the shakes. Their union is off to a less-than-stellar start; Isabel erupts in tears leaving the church because he’s driving […]
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Twitter me this
What can you do with 140 characters? The common knock on Twitter is that the microblogging site is a wasteland of people describing their lunches, shamelessly self-promoting their businesses or begging for more people to follow them on Twitter. But comedian Blaine Bacon saw something else: regular, everyday people dropping one-liners that deserved to be […]
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins / The Smurfs
Last time, I reviewed the movies “Rio,” “Monte Carlo” and “Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer” so my dad didn’t have to, but this time, I’m reviewing the movies “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” and “The Smurfs.” I loved the movie “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” and everything about it. It was a comedy that I definitely enjoyed. […]
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Wolf Head
Ryan “Staples” Scott just wanted to “do something funny, with guns.” “The image of a gun has so much more weight to it,” said the Yukon resident. “I wanted to create a plot to push that.” The end result is his directorial debut in feature filmmaking, “Wolf Head,” shot entirely in the Oklahoma City metro […]
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Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Still, even with the trailer freshly consumed and digested, you shouldn’t miss the movie. Putting a spin on a staple of slasher films — if not all of cinema, post-“Deliverance” — rednecks Tucker (Alan Tudyk, “Dodgeball”) and Dale (Tyler Labine, “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy“) aren’t actually trying to kill, maim or otherwise harm the […]
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Answer This!
Answer: “Answer This,” a harmless, but forgettable romantic comedy not worthy of the exclamation point in its title. Caterpillar-eyebrowed Christopher Gorham (TV’s “Covert Affairs”) plays Paul Tarson, a TA of a “Bible as Literature” college class, and son of the esteemed English professor Dr. Elliot Tarson (Ralph Williams, in his first feature). Living in his […]
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Insane in the Kinane
For the past 12 years, he’s worked his way up the ladder, moving from Chicago to Los Angeles and leaving behind an office job selling gourmet cake decorations over the phone (which he likened to being a “toothless cog” spinning freely) and opening for comedy juggernaut Patton Oswalt. His debut record, “Death of the Party,” […]
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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
To send it out in style, Eric decides “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” is the only proper end to such a long ride. The problem is simply convincing his small circle to join him. Uninhibited and (naturally) obese best bud (Tyler Labine, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes“) is in, but the uptight, BlackBerry-addicted […]
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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
To send it out in style, Eric decides “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” is the only proper end to such a long ride. The problem is simply convincing his small circle to join him. Uninhibited and (naturally) obese best bud (Tyler Labine, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes“) is in, but the uptight, BlackBerry-addicted […]
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Burke and Hare
His purported comeback, 2010’s “Burke & Hare,” also failed to secure a coast-to-coast release, grossing a theatrical grand total of $947. That’s a shame, because while no classic, the movie isn’t bad. Even minor Landis can be good Landis. Narrated by a hangman (UK stand-up comic Bill Bailey), the film takes the historical murders committed […]