MovieStinger: "Bad Teacher isn’t quite in the same class as Bridesmaids (review here), but it’s still consistently funny despite being hampered by the occasional dud. The film shuns raunchy gross-out shock gags (i.e., no male frontal nudity, which has become a common staple of R-rated comedies in the last half decade or so), perhaps a reflection of the writing team’s roots in television’s The Office. Very much like Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa, Cameron Diaz plays an immoral and unlikeable lowlife who’s supposed to be dealing with children gingerly but instead corruptly indulges in various vices (oh, the hypocrisy!)."
In The Fire trailer sees the return of Amber Heard in this 1890s period-piece horror arriving Friday, 13th October.
With Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is the surprising sequel to a surprise hit, the absurdity of which the makers are obviously much more aware of than in part one. Whether that’s good or bad, we’ll reveal in our review. OT: Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (USA/UK 2021) The plot summary They are like dog and cat, heaven and hell, …
Nine years after “Measuring the World”, the paths of director Detlev Buck and writer Daniel Kehlmann cross again – this time around Thomas Manns CONFESSIONS OF THE INVESTIGATOR FELIX KRULL to adapt. Our review reveals how successful this was. OT: Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (DE 2021) The plot summary The good-looking and charismatic …
