Jason Reitman seems fascinated with the spiritual emptiness of contemporary America. With Up In The Air he captured the soullessness of corporate America through George Clooney’s Ryan Bingham a man who sacked people for a living and spent his life in the limbo of airports and hotels. With his latest film Men, Women and Children Reitman attempts to articulate the
Read moreAdam Sandler’s irritating and embarrassingly juvenile comedies represent some of recent cinema’s lowest points. The few bright lights in his dismal oeuvre have usually co-starred Drew Barrymore whose screwball comic talents and considerable charm have, in films like The Wedding Singer and Fifty First Dates, managed to neutralise Sandler’s whiny obnoxiousness. The two are paired again in Blended a film
Read moreThe knives were out for Grown-Ups 2 long before it hit our shores. Not only is this an Adam Sandler film (he leads the cast and co-wrote the film) it’s also a sequel to another lame Adam Sandler film. About 20 minutes in, though, the film seems to be defying expectations. Aside from a ludicrous sequence involving a deer invading
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