Your reaction to the movie, Casa de mi Padre, may very well depend on your tolerance for so-so jokes. Dunno about you, but I only have the patience to hear bad jokes once. When I first hear a so-so joke, I tend to smile little and laugh less…then I find an excuse to go do […]
I really, really wanted to like Don’t be Afraid of the Dark since any scary movie having the Guillermo del Toro stamp of approval should be, by definition, pretty scary. And, yes. I did leave the theatre pretty scared all right … but it was fear for Maestro del Toro’s career. With a legacy and […]
This movie made me think fondly of an early Superman movie whereby Superman (the late Christopher Reeve) made the earth turn a few times in the opposite direction and literally turned back time so that he could save Lois Lane (Margot Kidder). This movie made me think fondly of an early Superman movie whereby […]
People, especially critics in the trades, need to get a sense of humor. Those of us who don’t take ourselves that seriously already do so. At least we try. It helps not to be a snobby snot if you have to review a movie like “Horrible Bosses,” which is, by the way, a very funny […]
I recently had the chance to chat with comedian Ahmed Ahmed, a really cool, handsome and funny Egyptian dude raised in California who makes a living by making people laugh. I’ve been gaga over the guy ever since I met him with his friend Maz Jobrani at the Axis of Evil Tour 2009 and if […]
E.T. call home … and sure indeed, E.T. did call home. After befriending humans and escaping menacing men in black, he did enjoy his stay in our planet, drank pop, watched daytime TV, got a to ride on a bike and accomplished a pretty wholesome existence in suburbia … before his final departure home. This […]