The following review contains SPOILERS A crew of colonists come across a planet holding a dark secret in Alien: Covenant. The colony ship Covenant is on its way to the remote planet of Origae-6, with two thousand colonists on board, monitored by synthetic crew member Walter (Michael Fassbender). When a neutrino burst hits the ship, Walter is…
Seth Rogen and his longtime writing parter Evan Goldberg make their directorial debuts with the apocalyptic horror/comedy This is the End. The film is an expansion of a 2007 short they wrote entitled Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse. The film features an allstar cast of actors, all playing themselves, who have become popular in…
30 Minutes or Less is an action-comedy from the director of Zombieland. It can easily be said that this film doesn’t have as original a premise as the previous, but I still found it to be quite hilarious. It’s a very simple plot: a looser of a pizza delivery boy (Jesse Eisenberg) gets strapped with a…
You could have called last year’s The Hangover a bit of a comeback film for Todd Philips, since it was his first true hit since Old School. I think it also raised expectations a bit for the follow-up. I can say that Due Date is a bit of a step-down from The Hangover in terms…
Up in the Air is definitely much closer in tone to Jason Reitman’s first film Thank You for Smoking than it is to Juno. The film stars George Clooney as a guy named Ryan Bingham who flies all over the country and fires people. It’s a thankless existence, but he seems content with it, feeling…
You can definitely say that Seth Rogen has become a big start in a very short period. It has been only three years, since he had his first real prominent film role in The 40 Year Old Virgin. Pineapple Express mixes a stoner comedy with an action film. Like last year’s Superbad, it was written…
Back in my Movies of the Moment post, I was hoping that this film, which reunited Ben Stiller with the Farrelly Brothers would have recreated the magic of There’s Something About Mary. Sadly, I have to say that is not the case. The film did have it’s moments. I thought the scenes where Stiller’s comedy…
