Holy heck. Do you guys remember when I was the film reviewer for TYCP? One of my reviews never got published when I stopped getting any correspondence from the editor of the site. I have uncovered this long-lost review and…
American Dad!, one of the best animated series you’re probably not watching, has a formula that has served itself well since Season 2. The writers set up a scenario that’s a spin on classic sitcom tropes. Then, in the final…
Down With Love is over the top, cheesy, and rife with cliches. That’s also the entire point of the film. Writers Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake crafted the skeleton of a throwback Rock Hudson/Doris Day battle of the sexes madcap…
As children, Burt and Anton were picked on mercilessly for being different. They formed a common bond over magic and grew up to become headliners in Las Vegas. They’ve grown to hate each other, but the success of the act…
A retirement home for professional musicians is in trouble. Almost all of the funds each year come from a huge benefit gala honoring Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday put on by the residents. However, the star performer is unable to perform this…
Warm Bodies is a romcomzom (that’s a romantic comedy zombie film for those not in the know) focused on the comedy. It’s a wise choice since the romance happens between a living girl and a zombie boy. If the film…
Movie 43 is an anthology comedy film with an odd framing device. A man walks into a film studio and demands to have his pitch for a new film heard. The studio executive agrees, becoming more and more disgusted and…
For better or worse, the Paranormal Activity series helped launch a new wave of found footage and home haunting horror films. This is in spite of extremely low production values, poor acting, and narratives that don’t actually arrive until the…
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is the cinematic equivalent of freestyling at the club and dropping the mic when the beat drops out. Lorene Scafaria’s debut directorial effort (she previously wrote the charming screen adaptation of…
The standard of mental health care in the world has improved tremendously in relatively recent history. Just over a hundred years ago, the go to solution was dropping off troublesome relatives in a sanatorium for an extended or even permanent…
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the story of seven British pensioners taking a chance on a new resort in India for seniors to retire in. These include a recent widow (Judi Dench), a man pursuing the love he never…
Mark O’Brien is a professional poet and freelance writer who has spent most of his life in an iron lung. Stricken by polio at a young age, O’Brien developed a sharp wit and a philosophy that everything is funny. Mark…
If you’ve never been involved in a cappella music, the first 20 or so minutes of Pitch Perfect might be rough chop to to sail through. There are a lot of jokes in a faux-Diablo Cody wins the Oscar for…
Nostalgia is a risky thing to build a film around. Are the memories you have indicative of the experience everyone else had with the subject in question? Will the subject translate to a wide enough audience to be accessible? Wreck-It…