Funny People
Judd Apatow’s personal epic Funny People (2009) is a tribute to its star Adam Sandler and a reflection on the price of fame. Apatow draws inspiration from Fitzgerald’s The Great… Read more »
Judd Apatow’s personal epic Funny People (2009) is a tribute to its star Adam Sandler and a reflection on the price of fame. Apatow draws inspiration from Fitzgerald’s The Great… Read more »
Craig Gillespie’s film of The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich, Dumb Money (2023), takes the familiar formal structure of his earlier film I, Tonya (2017), which itself is derived from… Read more »
Usually films about characters who belong to the cult-like fanbase of some film property speak to me in some subtle, very personal way. Even when I know the movie isn’t… Read more »
It’s a shame that critics and audiences have wrongfully assumed that Observe & Report (2009) is either Seth Rogen’s version of Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) or some Judd Apatow… Read more »
Only a few minutes into The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) did I find myself wondering who the movie was for. It certainly isn’ for Italian-Americans, and it doesn’t appear… Read more »
It seems only natural to me that the man behind The Ape (2005) would find a natural sort of kinship with Tommy Wiseau the creator of the cult phenomenon The… Read more »