Jason Segel
10 Best Things About the 2016 Oscars
How exactly would host Chris Rock handle #OscarsSoWhite, after staying mostly silent on the issues in recent weeks? What if Leo didn’t win? Would this be a “political Oscars” and who else is Hollywood excluding? We still do not have all the answers, and there is a lot of work to do. This was the year of the #agendaoscars, a year where effort itself was the show’s hope and spotlight. It was not a h...[Read More]
First Trailer for The End of the Tour Revealed
The first trailer (and poster) from director James Ponsoldt’s new film, The End of the Tour, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel is now available. The Sundance Film Festival darling opens theatrically on July 31st in New York and Los Angeles and expands nationwide throughout the month of August. The End of the Tour is also the opening night film for BAMcinemaFest on June 17th. ABOUT THE...[Read More]
Movie Review: Sex Tape
Settling into Sex Tape, I was looking forward to a couple of hours of laughter from this supposed comedy of the summer. (Maybe not pee-your-pants laughter, but more of a constant snicker with an occasional guffaw.) The kind of giggles that typically come with the territory of a Cameron Diaz and/or Jason Segel film. Besides, who doesn’t like a naughty, sexy comedy? Plus, Sex Tape director Jak...[Read More]
Movie Review: This Is 40
This is 40 takes us back to Pete (Paul Rudd), wife Debbie (Leslie Mann) and daughters Sadie and Charlotte (Mann and writer/director Judd Apatow’s real-life children Maude and Iris) who we meet up with again five years after the events of Knocked Up. Apparently turning 40 means it’s midlife-crisis time, and this couple both hit the landmark birthday the same week, though Debbie is in denial, ...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Five-Year Engagement
The Five-Year Engagement has all the stuff great romantic comedies are made of. It sports a superb cast and side-splitting consistent laughs through-out, with plenty of memorable one-liners that will keep you smiling for days after. The unforeseen chemistry between the two main love interests really does work baring the practicality of them fitting together being so seemingly mismatched. The film ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jeff is 30 and lives in his mother’s basement. He’s unemployed, smokes too much weed, and hasn’t had a girlfriend since high school (surprised?). He’s a slacker in every sense of the word, but according to Jeff he simply hasn’t found his destiny yet. I’m guessing many slackers use the same excuse to justify their laziness, but I doubt any slacker alive is as obsessed with the M. Night Shyamalan mo...[Read More]
Movie Review: Bad Teacher
Bad Teacher did two things for me that were unexpected, very unexpected: it kept me watching and it kept my interest. As hard as I tried to not like this movie, between a very clever script and a not too bad cast and maybe even a little direction that we can make note of, Bad Teacher redeems itself from the many missteps that could have been avoided. However, when you consider the screen writers f...[Read More]