When Sacha Baron Cohen made his previous two films, Borat and Brüno, he infamously used real-life individuals as part of his comedy. It worked, in part, because the majority of the individuals weren’t in on the joke. The mockumentary style… Read more…
For the past decade, the concept of the ensemble comedy has shifted into a very specific form: namely, an anthology of loosely connected stories with a bunch of name actors filling the roles. At its best, audiences get something like… Read more…
Dark Shadows marks the eighth collaboration between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. That’s right: the eighth. It’s been a fruitful series of collaborations, at least financially. Creatively…well, let’s just say that the law of diminishing returns has largely plagued the… Read more…
You may recognize Houston Rhines from Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You” video or from his guest star roles on ABC hits Grey’s Anatomy and Castle, but whether you’re familiar with Rhines or not, cupid will be shooting… Read more…
In the battle for Superhero Box Office Dominance 2012™, the first entry is The Avengers. And boy, does this movie bring out the big guns. If you’ve been living under a rock, The Avengers is the end result of… Read more…
There’s a rather simple formula for romantic comedies: boy meets girl, they fall madly in love, an obstacle comes between them, and they ultimately find a way to be together before the end credits roll. The Five-Year Engagement doesn’t recreate… Read more…
While Leave it on the Floor has made its way around the festival circuit, it starts its US theater premiere in Atlanta at the locally-owned Plaza Theater. Phillip Evelyn, an Atlanta native, portrays Princess Eminence, the diva who accepts no… Read more…
When a friend passed along this movie to watch, he said if I liked the documentary Paris is Burning then I’d love Leave it on the Floor. I nodded enthusiastically and accepted the screener, never once acknowledging that I’d never… Read more…
Carrie Preston is best known to audiences these days as waitress Arlene Fowler on True Blood, as well as the hilariously ditzy Elsbeth Tascioni on The Good Wife. On Friday night, though, Preston was in Atlanta not as an actress,… Read more…
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