Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) – No Meetings!
Ben Dover Preview The ultimate nineties comedy for anyone who wishes they could attend their reunion with a silencer. High school reunions are widely considered by civilized people to be a form…
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72 Hours (2026) – 72 Hours feels like 72 days in a room full of screaming toddlers.
Preview Director Tim Story brings another high-octane studio comedy to the screen with 72 Hours, a wild comedy starring Kevin Hart that takes a hard look at generational divides, corporate…
Little Brother (2026) – Grab a beer, turn off your brain, and watch two grown men destroy a Porsche on Netflix!
Preview If you have scrolled through your Netflix menu lately and felt your brain cells slowly leaking out of your ears, you are not alone. Streaming services keep pumping out…
Simon Birch (1998) A movie so sappy it ought to come with a pancake breakfast.
Preview Coming to video and streaming services this week is “Simon Birch,” a 1998 tearjerker about a tiny kid in 1960s Maine who believes God made him small for a…
The Big Hit (1998) – They fired thousands of bullets, but the biggest casualty was ninety minutes of my life.
Sizzling Action Meets Screwball Antics in Marky Mark’s Silly Crime Caper Hollywood is at it again with its latest attempt to mix high-octane bullets with low-brow laughs in The Big…
Mallrats (1995) – It turns out a garbage fire can be beautiful if you coordinate it just right.
A Blast from the Past (or a Blast of Something Else) Get ready to dust off your flannel shirts and prepare your eardrums for a metric ton of 1990s slacker…
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2006) – Two Vaughns, One Brain, and a Cannibal: Why My Head Hurts.
Come for the time-traveling Vince Vaughn, stay for the cannibal hitman and the crushing realization that even in the future, your husband is still a loud-mouthed jerk. Get ready for…
Back to the Future Part III (2000) – I came for time-traveling shenanigans, not a senior citizen’s square dance.
COWBOYS, CLOCKS, AND CALCULATED CASH-GRABS Well, they finally did it. They sent the kid with the puffy vest to the one place I actually wouldn’t mind visiting if it weren’t…
Back To The Future Part II (1989) – If I wanted to be this confused about what year it was, I’d just have another glass of scotch and stare at my calendar.
FUTURE TENSE AND PAST IMPERFECT If you thought the first movie was a headache, grab some aspirin and sit down. This “sequel” (a word Hollywood uses to describe “give us…
Back To The Future (1985) – It’s got heart, even if that heart is slightly confused about its own family tree.
HILL VALLEY OR HILL NO? If you went to the movie theater in 1985 like I did, you were likely to see a crowd of teenagers wearing neon vests and…