I love the older movies coming to Blu-ray these days. Honestly, I think there are two special effects shots in this entire movie. Even so, are paper cut-outs going to look that much better in high-def? Whatevs, it was an excuse to post this. There’s one problem with television: You can’t say &#*%, or $@&%, [...]

If any of the kids in “The Bad News Bears” were your child, or if you had any acquaintance with a youth sports coach even remotely like Morris Buttermaker, you’d be outraged and embarrassed. At the same time, the film delivers a message that all involved with youth sports probably couldn’t hear enough of. In [...]

The mobster flick mixes with show business in “Get Shorty,” the mob comedy from “The Addams Family” director Barry Sonnenfeld. The two (mob movies and Hollywood) have always gotten along well together from “The Godfather” to “Goodfellas,” so “Get Shorty” taking the humorous business angle is only a natural evolution. Starring John Travolta hot off [...]

An easy way to measure how much you will or won’t enjoy “Fanboys” is how closely you fit to the titular category. The more of a Star Wars fan you are and the more your gender and maturity is on par with ‘boy,’ the more you’ll like this ode to Star Wars fans. The premise [...]

“Extract” is not one of those tour-de-force comedies that knocks you on the floor with laughter, then again, that wasn’t exactly the case in Mike Judge’s previous cult hit “Office Space,” a film so in its own category that “Extract” will inevitably be — pardon the pun — judged by comparison. In the mold of [...]

The first thing to know about “Adventureland” is that although it was directed and written by Greg Mottola (“Superbad”) and it has Bill Hader in it, it is in know way in the mainstream vein of Judd Apatow-brand comedies. It’s not outrageously dirty or over-the-top hysterical ever. It prides itself on humor through character and [...]

Sometimes the most genius films are the ones that draw the most criticism. “Burn After Reading” may never reach the elite of IMDb top 250 and confuse and bother a lot of viewers, but if that’s you, then you simply have yet to watch enough Coen brothers films to understand and appreciate the deep intelligence [...]

Underdog sports movies walk a fine line with clichés; romantic comedies walk a fine line with clichés. “Tin Cup” is both these things and walks the finest of the fine lines, and though it leans toward the cliché, it never completely loses its balance. Its likable swagger behind star Kevin Costner — a similar swagger [...]

“Inglourious Basterds” is many things, but one thing it is not is a World War II drama. The setting is an alternate version of history, where Nazi-occupied France becomes the wild west for another of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s Sergio Leone-inspired pulp action movies where various Jews can carry out their revenge fantasies on assorted members [...]

A spoof is never a bad idea, but it requires wit and the Wayans brothers don’t have it. Think back to the films that made the spoof a genre (“Airplane” and “The Naked Gun”) and there you have a commitment to nonsensical but witty humor and most of all — subtlety.  “Scary Movie” might make [...]

Minus the gratuitous male genitalia jokes, “Funny People” is about as far from anything Judd Apatow has directed or produced since he hit it big with “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” Finally collaborating with longtime friend Adam Sandler, Apatow takes the creative license that his reputation as comedic master of the decade has afforded him and makes [...]