Film Review: A Prophet (Now Out on Blu-ray and DVD)
Making my Best of List for 09 earlier this year I never properly reviewed A Prophet. So to build awareness of this excellent film’s release on DVD and Blu-Ray I will give it the proper review it deserves. Review: A Prophet A Prophet might be the best crime film of the last decade and is […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right is a unique and funny dramedy that is driven by its excellent acting on all fronts. Following a pair of siblings born from the same sperm donor but were each birthed by their separate moms, we pick up just after the oldest, Joni, has turned 18 and can legally request […]
TV Review: Mad Men 4.2: Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Its Christmas time at SCDP and the office party keeps getting smaller. Having added no new accounts in the last month, the penny pinching is getting tighter as Lane has reduced the party to “a bottle of gin and a log of Velveeta.” Don is also not enjoying his first Christmas apart from the family […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “Dinner For Schmucks” Starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd
Based on a French film (has that ever worked?) Dinner for Schmucks stars Paul Rudd as Tim, an upwardly mobile businessman who finds himself at a career crossroads when his boss invites him to partake in a secret tradition he calls a “dinner for idiots.” It’s a regularly scheduled event in which Tim’s boss and […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore”
Has there ever been a movie more destined for Wal-Mart’s $5 bin than Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore? If there has, I’d sure like to see it. On second thought, scratch that. No, I wouldn’t. A sequel to Cats & Dogs, the 2001 film that was a surprise hit. It centered on […]
Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR… NOT The Cats Meow The best part of this film is before the movie really starts. WB treats us to a new Wile E. Coyote vs Roadrunner cartoon in of course 3D. I personally think this 3 minute cartoon got more laughs in 3 minutes than Kitty Galore and her henchmen do in 82 […]
Dinner For Schmucks
Directed by Jay Roach (the ‘Austin Powers’ series, “Meet the Parents”), “Dinner For Schmucks” is a remake of the 1998 French film “The Dinner Game.” This Americanized take stars Paul Rudd and Steve Carell, in a movie with pretty consistent laughs. Fueled by the two likable leads, and a great supporting cast, this is one […]
Charlie St. Cloud
Charlie St. Cloud is a boy like no other. He has amazing talent in the field of sailing, he’s so good in fact that he has earned a scholarship from Stanford. He’s a bit of a risk taker, but keeps a grounded personality due to being the father figure to his younger brother, Sam. If […]
TV Review: Mad Men Season 4.1: Public Relations (Season Premiere)
“Who is Don Draper?” A man who won’t meddle with the meddlers apparently, as the Season 4 premiere of “Mad Men” showed us. The show picks up almost a year after the coup of Sterling Cooper, and the formation of the new Sterling Cooper Draper & Price. With their swanky new table-less offices, full of […]
Another Take From Zac: Film Review: Salt (Angelina Jolie)
Salt is an interesting film that twists your loyalties and features a great action turn by Angelina Jolie and while the film doesn’t knock it out of the park it is a pretty good grounding for the film’s larger goal. Evelyn Salt is a spy for the CIA who is winding down and about to […]