Automobiles, Automobiles, and Automobiles [due date]

It’s a road movie. It’s a buddy comedy. It’s absurd. It’s incredibly heartfelt. Seriously? Seriously. Even though it exists in the universe of a comedy–where breaking the law is okay and repercussions are excised for the sake of pacing–this movie culls a lot of emotion out of its situations and its pit stops. But don’t […]

Tropic Thunder

Ben Stiller’s latest vehicle as a director seems to work and fail on the same levels. At times, it seems like it wants to be a serious war film and yet, at other times (ones usually not set in Vietnam), it seems like it wants to be a comedy. And the times when these things […]