By GroovyMovieGuy on July 5, 2009
Who loves Jack Black? Everyone. Who loves “Nacho Libre” and “School of Rock?” Everyone. Who loves “Be Kind Rewind?” Some. Maybe.
How could you go wrong with a movie starring Jack Black as Jerry Gerber, a neighborhood slacker who accidentally erases all the VHS tapes at Elroy Fletcher’s (Danny Glover) movie rental store while it’s under [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Comedy, Drama, Jack Black |
By GroovyMovieGuy on June 19, 2009
The Marx Brothers go to college in “Horse Feathers,” but not with honors. This movie is more like a series of sketches rather than an evolving plot.
Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) becomes head of Huxtable College which his son Frank (Zeppo Marx) attends. The new president decides this backwater school needs to set [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged black and white, Classic, Comedy, Groucho, Marx brothers, Screwball |
By movieMoll on June 15, 2009
Premise: Politically incorrect puppet super heroes destroy Paris and save the world.
Fans of South Park may be disappointed. Ditto for fans of Alec Baldwin and Matt Damon. The film seeks to offend everyone, as does South Park, but overall it’s not nearly as funny.
The first 30 minutes of “Team America: World Police” were slow. There [...]
Posted in Action Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Index | Tagged action, adventure, Animation, Comedy, Matt Stone, puppets, Trey Parker |
By GroovyMovieGuy on June 15, 2009
Team America: World Police, Unrated, f* yeah!
Southpark creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with co-writer, Pam Brady, skewer everyone from the left to the right and take on international terrorists too. This puppet-powered full-length action/comedy feature blasts Americans who toe the party line and terrorists who wouldn’t know a party if their turban turned [...]
Posted in Action Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Index | Tagged action, adventure, Animation, Comedy, Matt Stone, puppets, Trey Parker |
By movieMoll on June 8, 2009
This is Astaire and Rogers first pairing as leads after their knockout supporting performances in “Flying Down to Rio” the year before. Lightweight plot finds Guy Holden (Fred Astaire) pursuing Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers). She’s playing hard-to-get because she’s still married to an absentee husband. Her Aunt Hortense (Alice Brady) concocts a divorce plan by [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Crime, Index, Musical, Romance, Screwball | Tagged Astaire and Rogers, Best Song Oscar, Comedy, dance, Musical, Romance |
By movieMoll on June 7, 2009
Thirteen years after Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) first lit up the silver screen in “The Thin Man,” the pair give their farewell performance in the sixth and final entry of the series with “Song of the Thin Man.” Nick and Nora have aged a bit and eased up on their drinking [...]
Posted in Comedy, Index, Mystery | Tagged Comedy, Mystery, Nick and Nora, Nick Charles |
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