When Walter Mitty was seventeen, his dad died suddenly. With the family left destitute, young Walter was forced to give up his dreams to support his mother and sister. He ends up working in Negative Management at Life Magazine, where he’s the sole trusted recipient of the award-winning photo-journalist Sean O’Connell’s masterpieces. Life though is…
Read moreJust Go With It
I’ll say this nicely. There’s a guy in my gym who’s suffering from some sort of elephantiasis. Seriously. He’s got this wee, completely normal-sized head that’s carrying no extra flab around his chin or cheeks, but his body is lumbering and massive and each of his legs are the size of my entire torso. As…
Read moreTower Heist
In Tower Heist, Ben Stiller plays Josh, the manager of one of those opulent Trump Towers-y residential buildings in New York. He prides himself on running a slick and efficient team (all star cast here) that attends to the pampered needs of others. One of those others, the owner of the penthouse suite, is a…
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I’m not quite sure what to make of Tropic Thunder – Ben Stiller’s raucous romp through Indochina (Zoolander meets Apocalypse Now). Some belly laughs (mostly covering my mouth going “Oh my god!”), some knowing smiles, a whole lot of “what now?”s. I got all of the jokes and everything; I just didn’t find them all that hilarious. Or…
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