Sometimes just getting to hang out with characters is more than enough. Case in point: the new comedy from first-time filmmaker and music video veteran Lawrence Lamont, One of Them […]

I don’t want to spoil anything up front about how I feel about the new Adam Sandler-produced Netflix comedy The Out-Laws, but it stinks to high heaven. Your reaction may […]

Although a little rough around the edges, the new documentary Out of the Loop is the deepest dive I’ve ever seen on the history of the Chicago stand-up comedy scene […]

Writer/director/actor James Morosini had something happen to him when he was slightly younger, involving his father, that was so disturbing and memorable that rather than erase it from his memory, […]

This one is bonkers. Top to bottom bonkers. More importantly, the return to movie-making by director Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, 9 1/2 Weeks, Jacob’s Ladder), Deep Water) finds ways to […]

In the same way I’ll ding a horror film for not being scary, I’ll eagerly discuss the existence of comedies that rarely make me laugh. Welcome to the feature film […]

The challenge I’ve always put to filmmakers who choose to adapt a video game into a movie is to make it accessible to someone who has never played a modern […]

I want to call everyone’s attention to one very significant fact about Space Jam: A New Legacy, and that is: it took five people to write Space Jam: A New […]

For a guy who is considered a powerhouse one-man publicity machine, Kevin Hart surprised me by not being out promoting his latest work  yet. Fatherhood is a lighter drama with […]

I suspect that watching the latest film from Jeff Tremaine, the primary producer of both the Jackass franchise and Bad Grandpa, is going to have one of two impacts upon […]