Dinner For Shmucks

Paul Rudd plays Tim, an analyst at an ailing financial services firm.  To survive, they need to woo an eccentric Swiss heir, Müeller (David Walliams doing Val Kilmer’s best Eurotrash impression from The Saint), in order to stay afloat.  Tim’s girlfriend, Julie (Stephanie Szostak), appears to be taking interest in yet another European eccentric, shock [...]

Hot Tub Time Machine

After John Cusack and a friend go to the aid of a buddy when they try to commit suicide, they all go away to a mountain lodge for a fun weekend. When they fall into a magic hot tub they are soon shocked to see their reflections in the mirrors, with their crazy hairstyles and [...]

The Bounty Hunter

Oh, how I long for the days of black comedies when a great seductress like Kathleen Turner could play naughty or nice, and still manage to have you rooting for her in the end (such as in the classic War of the Roses)! Unfortunately there has not been a new queen of dark comedies in [...]

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

In Did You Hear About the Morgans?, a New York attorney and a real estate broker find themselves in a typical rom-com plot: They’re going to split up, but fate surprises them with a rustic getaway of sorts that brings them together again, all set to a puzzling soundtrack that incorporates not country music but [...]

The Goods

Temecula seems to be synonymous with Milton’s Paradise Lost. At least that’s the impression you get from Neal Brennan’s The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, which reminds me of the “Beavis & Butthead” show, minus the scathing sociopolitical commentary. Don Ready (Jeremy Piven) is a man who, as the name is undoubtedly meant to imply, [...]