Harold and Kumar are back. In this sequel they make a trip to Amsterdam. Unfortunately the authorities suspect them as terrorists when they try to sneak a bong on board their flight to Amsterdam.
24 April 2008
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo
Baby Mama Movie Review
By: Robert Bell
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Instead of the dick and fart jokes audiences have become accustomed to in an Apatow and Ferrell dominated comedy world, Baby Mama offers up some vagina and menstruation jokes; which for the most part are delivered quite well. Constant hilarity ensues when the two affable leads are on screen together, but the film lags with formulaic garble when they are forced to deal with their other less comedically inclined co-stars.
Choosing career over family, Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) finds herself single at the age of 37 and wanting a baby. Unable to naturally carry a fetus of her own, she turns to a surrogate mother agency run by the insincere and surprisingly fertile Chaffee Bicknell (Sigourney Weaver in another strong comedic role).
She is matched with the white-trash, karaoke singing Angie (Amy Poehler), who after impregnation, breaks up with her retarded boyfriend Carl (Dax Shepard) and moves in with Type-A personality Kate where comedy antics ensue.
While the actual script isn’t particularly strong, featuring some weak jokes and uninspired character arcs, the performances make Mama worthwhile. Tina Fey has mastered the straight-man role, radiating condescension and delivering consistently amusing reaction shots. There are very few actresses who could use the word “taint” in such an inspired manner. Also, Amy Poehler embraces her ignorant stereotype with gusto, keeping her over-the-top character surprisingly grounded, which only makes the sincere delivery of such bizarre dialogue that much more amusing. When the two are acting off of each other, the film shines, offering often relentless humour.
Perhaps this natural chemistry between the leads is what makes the other exchanges throughout the film so unwelcome. Sequences involving Steve Martin and Dax Shepard are almost always void of energy, and Fey’s relationship with Greg Kinnear feels somewhat forced.
It is easy to overlook the shortcomings of Baby Mama, as on the whole it delivers what it advertises. Some fresh female humour about stirrups and the anxieties surrounding the demands of juggling family with career are welcome in a male dominated comedy world.23 April 2008
17 April 2008
88 minutes synopsis
In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster, influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon's execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same "modus-operandi" and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support of his former wife and associated Shelly Barnes, the FBI agent and his friend Frank Parks and his assistant Kim Cummings, Jack investigate some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dr. Jack is a shrewed womanizing Forensic Psychologist and professor working with the FBI in Seattle. A tortured past makes him great at what he does. Jack's past is returning to pull him on another roller-coaster as a killer that he helped to put on death row approaches the last minutes of his life. Written by Miist
A thriller about a college professor who, while moonlighting as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat telling him that he has only 88 minutes to live. In narrowing down possible suspects, he frantically seeks to communicate with a problem student, an ex-girlfriend, and a serial killer on death row. Written by Anonymous
15 April 2008
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