Comedic Fetish: Joy Regullano
In Comedy | By MrIncredible | On January 8 2015 12:00 PM
As an awkward middle child, Joy Regullano quickly learned that being funny was the best way to get attention. She went on to double major in Theater / Performance Studies and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, appearing in plays ...
Suburban Throwdown: Neighbors Review
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On May 10 2014 11:45 AM
Last summer, Seth Rogen made his directorial debut with the uproariously hilarious This Is the End, a star-studded apocalyptic comedy that revealed Rogen and fellow director Evan Goldberg’s affection for horror movies. In addition to writing and directing, Rogen also ...
More! More! More! The Wolf of Wall Street Review
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On December 29 2013 05:27 PM
Just a few short weeks ago, director David O. Russell brought us American Hustle, a sexy, cool, and confident look at a bunch of leisure-suited misfits trying to obtain the good life in the amber glow of the late 1970s. ...
Geriatric Action! RED 2 Review
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On July 21 2013 01:54 PM
About three years ago, director Robert Schwentke’s geriatric action-comedy RED became a respectable success. It raked in a nice chunk of change, it seemed to charm anyone who went to the theater to see it, and it even went on ...
English Class Meets Jay-Z: The Great Gatsby Review
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On May 11 2013 05:34 PM
It has been nearly five long years since we heard from the flamboyant Australian director Baz Luhrmann, the man behind such eye-popping spectacles like the contemporary kids-with-guns retelling of William Shakespeare’s Romero + Juliet, the gonzo jukebox musical Moulin Rogue!, ...
Movie Review: ParaNorman
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On August 19 2012 10:00 AM
This fall sees the release of three ghostly children’s films and the first one rising out of the grave is ParaNorman, a gentle and amusing adventure about a lovable loner who can chat with the undead. From the makers of ...
Movie Review: The Campaign
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On August 12 2012 10:27 AM
Finally, a summer comedy worth laughing hard about! Funnyguys Will Farrell and Zach Galifianakis team up for a short but (really) sweet political satire in The Campaign, cleverly released just three short months before the presidential election, right in the ...
Movie Review: The Watch
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On August 3 2012 10:47 AM
What do you get when you put Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill in the same movie? Apparently, an extremely mediocre product with a flabby screenplay and a small handful of memorable chuckles. The Watch is the newest comedy ...
Ted: First Good Comedy of Summer 2012
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On June 30 2012 06:39 PM
I may upset tons of people when I say this but I have never been the biggest fan of Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy, the wildly popular animated television series that relies heavily on making one random joke about pop culture ...
ROCK OF AGES: Choppy, Inconsistent and Underdeveloped
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On June 17 2012 01:26 PM
It is always great to see a musical on the big screen these days. Every once and a while, the genre has to resurface to show audiences that there is still life in that old dog yet. Now we have ...