What happens when justice fails to protect the very people it is meant to serve?
“Relationships β An Almost Romantic Comedy is a one-act comedy Written and Directed by Leandro Muniz that applies a non-conventional approach to relationships and exposes the well-known struggles of romantic love.We promise your relationships will never be the same – or almost!”
Tell me if you’ve heard this story before. Three longterm best bros get together for one final hurrah, and in turn, spend the night on the craziest adventure of their lives with plenty of hijinks, a bad guy or two, and, of course, lots and lots of the green. And by the end, they find true love (platonic or romanticβ¦ usually both).
So yeah, add a Christmas tree and a hell of a lot of cameos (Miley Cyrus, Mindy Kaling, etc.) and youβve got The Night Before, Seth Rogen and partner-in-crime Evan Goldbergβs latest comedy vehicle.Β
Directed and co-written by 50/50βs Jonathan Levine, The Night Before may be semi-predictable, but itβs fun nonetheless. The film tells the story of best buds Ethan (Joseph Gordon Levitt, Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) who have spent the night before Christmas together for the last decade. But things have changed. Isaac is starting a family, Chris is an insanely famous football player, and Ethan, well, heβs going nowhere. Their last night beforeΒ takes a turn for the best when they attempt to make their way to a very exclusive party in the heart of Brooklyn.Β
So what happens on the way? Oh, you know, the usual. Drugs, lots of them. Weed. Coke. Shrooms. Thereβs karaoke, Michael Shannon, lots of dick pics, and even a rooftop chase.
The funniest parts of the movie are also the most surprising. Take, for instance, when a character is sort of crucified, which had the audience in stitches. Or thereβs the moment when a manger comes to life. Kind of. That all sounds kind of insane, but it’s funnier than you think.
Tracy Morgan does a bomb ass job narrating the story, and the three leads doΒ just enough for you to question whether you are watching them act or just hangout (this especially feels real when James Franco shows up). Gordon Levitt continues to shine as the guy who’s always a bit lost, Rogen spends most of the movie high out of his mind, but nails it as per usual, and Mackie is very appealing as a fame whore who’s obsessed with social media.
Sure, the ending is exactly what you assumed it would be, but itβs a crazy adventure getting there. There’s also something pretty realistic and heartwarming about the three leads’ friendship. Sure, things change, but your friends will always be there for you.Β The message may sound simple, but with comedies these days, it’s a dime a dozen.
The film hits theaters this Friday.
We had the opportunity to see the film at a special screening hosted by Joe Boxer on Nov. 16. A party followed atΒ the DL, where guests enjoyedΒ Serpent’s BiteΒ Whisky, Budweiser, Red Bull infused cocktails and Dark Horse Wine. DJ Jonny was on the turntables.Β Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie andΒ co-writer/director Jonathan Levine were all in attendance.
PHOTO CREDIT: Dave Allocca, StarPix
Art is a matter of aesthetics.
Premiering on Friday November 20, Marvel’s Jessica Jones had it’s “Purple” Carpet premiere in New York City at Regal E-Walk.Β
Amy Berg succeeds in showing a side of Janis Joplin that the world has never seen before Β with her biographical documentary “Janis: Little Girl Blue.”
If you’re like me, you have two great loves in life: ski jumping and Christopher Walken. And when you find out that there’s going to be a movie with Christopher Walken about ski jumping, you can sure bet that the excitement is extraordinary.
That’s whatΒ Eddie the EagleΒ is going to be about- a British American sports comedy with Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, and Christopher Walken, about the 1980s Olympic ski jumper Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards. Directed by Dexter Fletcher and produced by Matthew Vaughn, Adam Bohling, David Reid, Rupert Maconick, and Valerie Van Galder, the film started shooting from March 9 to May 3 2015 at Pinewood Studios, London, and Germany.
Eddie the Eagle was the first ski jumper from Britain to participate in the Olympics. In Calgary of 1988, he lost both his competitions, but his story is inspiration because of the people involved. Jackman and Walken will play fictional characters in the film based on true people in Edwards’ life. Jackman will be Edward’s main coach, Bronson Peary, and Walken will be the mentor to both Edwards and Peary, Warren Sharp. The idea to make their characters fictional was because Edwards had numerous coaches in both Britain and in the United States and so the filmmakers thought it would be less confusing and more personal to go along the one coach route.
The film is set to come out April 29, 2016, and it will detail Edwards’ practice before the actual Olympic games, detailing how he had no funding, not even a budget to buy actual prescription goggles so he ended up wearing glasses under his goggles which made seeing a near impossibility.
Tarzan. Which one do you think of? For me, it’s the 1999 Disney film, others, the Ron Ely 1966 television seriesΒ Tarzan,Β as well as the 1970 film,Β Tarzan: A Deadly Silence.Β
And for this generation, it’s going to be the Alexander Skarsgard version, set to release on July 1, 2016. The film, directed by David Yates and written by Stuart Beattie, Craig Brewer, John Colle, and Adam Cozad, will star a number of well known people, including Skarsgard as Tarzan, Margot Robbie as Jane Porter, as well as Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, and Djimon Hounsou.
The story’s premise will follow Tarzan a while after he left Africa, to live on a civilized life with his wife Jane, as he lives as John Clayton III, or also called, Lord Greystroke. As he returns to Africa to serve as a trace emissary, he soon gets involved in Belgium Captain Rom’s (Waltz) deadly plot and now he must make amends and stop him before things go terribly wrong. Jackson will play George Washington Williams and Hounsou will play Chief Mbonga.
The film itself is almost twelve years in the making, as John August was asked in 2003 to make a live adaptation of the story in modern day times. The script bounced around a bit, Michael Phelps’ name was even attached to the project, and now it landed safely to premiere on its July date.
In September, director of the newΒ GhostbustersΒ remake Paul Feig tweeted to an annoying heckler of the reboot to “Go f— yourself” in response to his constant bantering on Twitter and remarks against the film. The heckler says it has nothing to do with it being an all female cast, so what is it? What makes this reboot any different than any other unoriginal story that encompasses what Hollywood is made of today? Just for comparison:
- Do comic book lovers cry about the newest sequel or spin off of an established super hero franchise? (ie,Β Spiderman, Batman, X-Men, The Avengers, Captain America, Superman,Β etc)
- No, but if Hollywood dare makes Wonder WomanΒ into a movie.
- Do Star WarsΒ andΒ Star TrekΒ nerds cry about reboots and remakes by the same director for both franchises?
- But if they dare even think of stopping Princess Leia slave figures, God help them
Ok, that’s all I can think of at the moment, but seriously, why do we need to be such a sensitive society where all we think about is the wrongs of society with gender, reboots, films, and MPAA warnings? Why can’t we be like good ol’ Europe and worry about violence in films as opposed to petty stuff that just won’t get anyone anywhere?
*Rant over* But, watch some coolΒ GhostbustersΒ stunt action below, and remember, reboots are the bread of Hollywood today.
Thereβs something funnier about physical gag comedy. Almost all comedies these days are full of conversational humor, full of jokes that characters retort back to one another in an effort to make those comedies all the more hilarious. And then thereβs Edgar Wrightβs films, like Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and more. If thereβs only one thing that could be said about those films, itβs that they use physical humor to make you laugh and possibly choke on that popcorn.
That choking is exactly why weβre excited for Baby Driver, a new film he wrote and directed, starring Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Ansel Elgort, and Jamie Foxx. The film revolves around a crime boss who forces a getaway driver to work for him as one of his employees is a trigger-happy cop killer. Spacey will play the crime lord who has worked his way up to earn that name, while Hamm will play the bank robber who kills cops, and Elgort will play the young getaway driver. Lily James will also play a waitress who acts as the love interest for Elgort, all the while Foxx is signed onto the project but his role is unknown at the current moment.
The film is set to come out March 17, 2017, however, so weβll have a while to wait before it comes out.