REVIEW: Ride Along
If anyone ever wanted to know what a mash-up of “Training Day” and “Monster-in-Law” would look like, “Ride Along” exists for their viewing pleasure. Ice Cube stars as Office James Payton, an elder...
View ArticleREVIEW: Get Hard
To be fair to writer/director Etan Coen, I did enter “Get Hard” with knives at the ready to draw. I am currently enrolled in a sociology course on race and ethnic relations, and a film that appeared...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Wedding Ringer
“I’m really starved for a new Kevin Hart vehicle,” said no one in the year 2015. But the market gets what it wants, so moviegoers get five Kevin Hart films in fifteen months. The fourth of these to...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Secret Life of Pets
Universal Pictures’ Illumination Entertainment has been collecting plenty of money in the 2010s thanks to films like the “Despicable Me” series, but what is their identity? Prior to “The Secret Life of...
View ArticleREVIEW: Central Intelligence
Rawson Marshall Thurber’s “Central Intelligence” takes a tried and true premise – a mistaken identity thriller in the vein of Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” – and finds a way to make it just mildly...
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