Ernest & Celestine is sweet and cute, but also shockingly ridiculous in spurts! There are some great gags mixed in though it often feels like the film is speeding from one thing to the next with little-to-no time to explore any particular idea… Apart from maybe the concept of a society’s infrastructure relying solely on the buying, selling, and stealing of teeth? That choice was certainly a creative one. What commentary the surrounding plot offers up on capitalism and racism, however,…
Knew absolutely nothing about this going in and hooooolyyyyyy shiiiiiiit!!! By far the most tense, stressed, and exhilarated a movie has made me in years. Breakdown is an explosive crescendo of a caper that spirals out of a classic, “wrong place, wrong time, wrong fuckin’ people,” scenario... But which place, time, and people were so wrong in the first place? The unraveling plot keeps you guessing and its escalation had my jaw on the floor. What we have here is…
The amount of times Jack Black and Kyle Gass have damn near filmed porn together for the butt of a Tenacious D joke is staggering.
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Released five years before his first feature film in 2001, Derek Zoolander: Male Model was the short film introduction to Ben Stiller’s gullible goofball that originally aired during the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards. While Stiller’s performance isn’t quite honed to be the especially exaggerated Zoolander that eventually appeared in the movie version, his short’s script is just as hilariously witty. The runtime of this little project is less than three minutes but it had me cracking up out loud multiple times even as I watched it alone in my room late at night.
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