Anchorman 2 jumps the shark. I wish, I wish that was a fun little inside joke based on a couple of sharks in a couple of actual scenes. But it’s not. What starts off as a charming return to the whacky wink-nudge lunacy of the first Anchorman movie rapidly descends into bloviating incoherence. It’s so…
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Remember when you were twenty-something and all dronkverdried with your best friend, and through a filter of gin you agreed that if you weren’t married by thirty you’d marry each other? Friends with Kids is sort of like what happens when people do that for realsies. Jennifer Westfeldt and Adam Scott play a couple of…
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In Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig plays Annie, a Milwaukee woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown….. Her beloved bakery shop has just gone bust and her boyfriend’s left her. She’s forced to work in a dead-end jewelery shop serving happy couples buying engagement rings and she nurtures a horrible self-destructive fuckbuddy relationship with a rich…
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