In Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star as childless filmmakers who fall in with a hipster couple played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. Stiller’s best friend Fletcher, a new dad, is portrayed by Adam Horovitz, who you more likely recognize from his day job as a Beastie Boy. He […]
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Enough Focking around already
Is it tempting fate to say that the second sequel to the passable 2000 comedy Meet the Parents represents the franchise’s nadir? Although the title refers to the young twins now being raised by Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) and his wife Pam (Teri Polo), the series still revolves around Greg’s uneasy relationship with father-in-law Jack […]
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the abysmal sequel to the already lugubrious Night at the Museum, received some interesting competition in gross-out comedy Dance Flick last weekend. While the films play to different portions of the under-30 market—Museum to the kiddies, Dance Flick to the teens—the films can be compared in their […]