Captain Fantastic
Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) is an idealistic live-off-the-land type who raises his six children in the wilderness with all the skills they’ll need to survive after the apocalypse. Think Bear […]
Tag Archives: comedy
Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin Williams goes undercover as a British nanny in order to see his non-custodial children in Mrs. Doubtfire, a kind of ’90s Hairy Poppins. Where most zany-yet-sentimental flicks of this era fumble […]
I’ve never seen…Crocodile Dundee
After hearing the tall tale of a man who was almost eaten by a croc, New York journalist Sue (Linda Kozlowski) heads to Australia to investigate in a flimsy pretext […]
Color Out of Space
A meteorite causes paranormal disturbances on a farm in this new horror/Lovecraft/Nicolas Cage movie that they should have called Poultrygeist. Except they couldn’t because a) it’s an alpaca farm and […]
Screens of the Stone Age: Year One
Do you ever worry your skillset would have been useless in prehistoric times? Not me. I’d have been a pun-ter gatherer. Judd Apatow does Life of Brian in this 2009 […]
Greed
Steve Coogan is Sir Rich “Greedy” McCreadie, a retail billionaire who’s bullied, tricked and asset stripped his way to the top in a way that makes Gordon Gekko look like […]
The Personal History of David Copperfield
The latest film from Armando Iannucci takes on the semi-autobiographical Dickensian tale, as told by its literary protagonist (Dev Patel). In a whistlestop tour of Copperfield’s life we meet the […]
