Lazy Movie Review: The Five Year Engagement

Premise:  Jason Segel and Emily Blunt have been in a relationship for a year, and Segel asks Blunt to marry him.  She says yes and they begin to plan their wedding.  (RECORD SCRATCH)  Until Blunt gets a dream job in Michigan, and causes Segel to quit his job as a highly regarded San Fransisco chef [...]

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Lazy Movie Review: Bully

Premise:  A documentary about bullying in American schools.  It follows an outcasted boy who’s kind of odd looking, a lesbian teenager who got shunned by her Bible Belt town, a girl who snapped and brought a gun on a school bus, and a couple of families who’ve had children kill themselves as a result of [...]

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Lazy Movie Review: God Bless America

Premise:  A middle aged man (Joel Murray, brother of Bill) is becoming increasingly sick, both mentally and physically, over how inconsiderate, dimwitted, and mean America has become.  Eventually, he gets fed up with it all, and instead of taking his own life, he decides to become a serial killer that takes the lives of the [...]

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Lazy Movie Review: The Innkeepers

Premise:  It’s the last weekend that a spooky Inn will be open, and the two employees working there are intent on capturing evidence of the ghost that haunts it before they leave.  Even more than the concept, I was drawn in because it is Ti West’s follow-up to House of the Devil (which I enjoyed [...]

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Jeff Who Lives at Casa de 21 Jump Street’s Billion Dollar Game Change

I’ve seen a bunch of new movies recently, five to be exact, and I thought I’d just group them conveniently into a single post.  I didn’t go to the theater five times like an insane person though, only three times, then I caught another on HBO, and the last on Comcast On-Demand (two weeks ago, [...]

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Lazy Movie Review: Wanderlust

Premise:  Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are New York City folk who lose their jobs.  While traveling to Georgia to live with Rudd’s brother, they spend the night at a hippie commune (or as the hippie’s call it, an ‘intentional community’).  Turns out they like the lifestyle, and hate Rudd’s brother even more, so they [...]

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Lazy Movie Review: Take Shelter

Premise:  Michael Shannon plays a man from Ohio who starts having nightmares about huge storms coming his way, so he gets a a little obsessive about expanding the tornado shelter in his backyard.  His wife doesn’t understand why he’s going crazy, and the whole ordeal begins to take a toll on his home life.  Is [...]

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Lazy Movie Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Premise: A slew of the finest British actors working today are all secret agents trying to figure out who has been working as a double agent for years amongst their head agents.  Yeah!  Secret agents kick ass! Pros: -All the acting and dialogue are top notch for the most part. -Once the full scope of [...]

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Double Feature Review:: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol & Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows

I had myself a double feature this weekend.  I went to see Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (in IMAX) on Saturday afternoon, and quickly followed that up with a screening of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.  It was an action packed Saturday, full of mischief and capers!  I figured right now I’d save some time [...]

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Lazy Movie Review: Bellflower

Premise:  Two dudes are building a post-apocalyptic car…  just because…  they want to…?  Also some girls get involved and shit gets craaaaaaaaaaaaaazy!!!!!  women be shoppin’!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pros: -The look of the whole film was pretty cool.  It was made for $17,000 and apparently the dude who made it built his own custom camera made of old [...]

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