Bridesmaids Directed by: Paul Feig Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy Running Time: 2 hrs 5 mins Rating: R Release Date: May 13, 2011 PLOT: Annie (Wiig) is down on her luck, in business and with men. When her best friend (Rudolph) picks her to be the maid of honor, even more [...]
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He Said – She Said … Date Night
Morrow and I had one of the bad kinds of Date Night experiences – the one where your time together ends with the girl checking into the Betty Ford Clinic, or shaving her head and trying to be a monk. Amazing, however, that this could have been spurred by a movie that starred Steve Carell [...]
He Said – She Said … Shutter Island
Once again it’s time for another installment of He Said/She Said. This time, we’re doing Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio. As always, if you don’t want to read about plot spoilers, leave now. We won’t be offended. Bayer’s TSR – 9/10 Bayer’s “Keep it Local” video review He Said (Nick Allen) Scripts can [...]
He Said – She Said … The Princess and the Frog
We are spoiled by Pixar, Dreamworks, and BlueSky (okay, for those guys, maybe sometimes). These animation titans are leading the charge when it comes to computer animation, with their vibrant worlds created with mouse clicks and keyboards. They may be inspired by the hand-drawn animation classics, but they have contributed in putting that form of [...]
He Said – She Said … The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Werewolves, vampires, and hunks, ooooooh my! The second film from the Twilight saga has stomped into theatres, and from a consensus I gathered by reading mass-Twitter for a few seconds, has been breaking hearts everywhere – in a good way. How would it fare with our critics? In this corner, we have Morrow McLaughlin, who [...]
He Said – She Said … Zombieland
Zombieland rules. Moviegoers discovered the zombie-kill fest last weekend, and it started the film off at #1 in the box office, beating Disney’s 3-D rerelease of the Toy Story films. Thus, we have a shorter and less confrontational episode of He Said/She Said this week. But despite this version’s brevity and droolage, feel free to [...]
He Said – She Said … The Invention of Lying
Ricky Gervais, the man who co-created the original “The Office,” and “Extras” releases his newest film this weekend, The Invention of Lying. Gervais has made us laugh many times before, so how did he do this time? He Said/She Said tries to figure out how truly good (or bad) his new film is. Here’s the [...]
He Said – She Said … Jennifer’s Body
Megan Fox, nearly naked, didn’t break box office records. It didn’t even place in the top 3 this weekend. Why not? Well, we’re back with another addition of He Said/She Said to figure out the answer. Jennifer’s Body is about a high school girl (Fox) unexpectedly becomes a boy-devouring demon. The only person who can [...]
He Said – She Said … 9
The animated film 9 isn’t directed by Tim Burton, though he did produce. Shane Acker is behind the PG-13 picture with voice talent Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau and Crispin Glover. It tells the tale of 9 coming to life to find himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all [...]
He said – She said … Up
This week “He said – She said” discusses the latest animate film from Disney and Pixar, Up. Opening Friday, May 29, the film stars the voice of Ed Asner as a man who flies to South America by attaching helium balloons to his house. On his journey he meets some interesting characters; humans, animals – [...]
He said – She said … Star Trek
It’s time for another installment of “He said – She said” with J.J. Abrams’ highly anticipated Star Trek, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho and more. As always, we recommend seeing the film before reading, because we’re talking ALL aspects of the film, including plot spoilers.
Editor’s note: For the complete Scorecard Review of Star Trek, click here. Jeff Bayer gives the film a 9/10. He also had long, long conversations with Nick trying to explain to him that Star Trek is better than X-Men Origins: Wolverine. One key point he didn’t bring up until now is, both films use the word “engage.” The one with the claws didn’t do it justice.
It’s he (Nick Allen) and she (Morrow McLaughlin).
He Said
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He said – She said … I Love You, Man
It’s time for another installment of He Said/She Said with the bromance I Love You, Man.
It’s She (Morrow McLaughlin) and He (Nick Allen).
She Said
I feel like I spend the majority of these dialogues bitching and moaning and I was really hoping to dole out some kudos this time around the block–especially when the previews looked so funny and there is nothing that perks me up quite like a fun buddy movie. I love Paul Rudd, I love Jason Segel, I love the idea…it should’ve been one big love fest that ended with me pirouetting happily around the theater.
Instead, I spent most of my time trying to force myself to laugh so I could talk myself into liking it, thus, putting myself in a position to not be the big downer
He said – She said … Friday the 13th
It’s once again time for He Said/She Said. With he (Nick Allen) and she (Morrow McLaughlin) talking about Friday the 13th.
He Said
Wow. This movie was a blast. As a fan of the entire franchise, I was thrilled to near death by this reboot, starting at the very beginning with the killing of Jason’s mom, and continuing until the very end of the movie. In fact, the extensive opening that ends with the film’s title card had the audience (and myself included) applauding and cheering. Much like the rest of the film, the sequence was tense, hilarious, and ultimately – horrifying.
The film has obvious “faults”, (meaning cliches and people assisting in their own demise in some dumb way), but like last month’s My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Friday embraces such elements for
He said – She said … Push
It’s once again time for He Said/She Said, starring Nick Allen as “He” and Morrow McLaughlin and “She.”
She Said:
It’s fascinating how this movie just inches into average when all of the individual elements are, conceptually, so extremely cool. Mutant psychic powers are always a romp and the movie itself looks like it’s trying out for grainy, wide-lens John Wooesque look-a-like of the year. And despite all that, it’s tepid and a wee unoriginal. The underlying story is summed up so hastily in order to get to the action sequences, that there are gaps and holes galore. Plus, the setup itself is so logically immovable the rest of it is actually impossible–there would be no escaping Division if they had the best remote “watchers” in the world and any attempt at
He said – She said … The Spirit
It’s he (Nick Allen) and she (Morrow McLaughlin) talking about the new film The Spirit.
She Said
From what I understand of the original Spirit series by Will Eisner, the movie version is a gaudy, heartless sacrilege, but I haven’t been exposed to the original. This is a disadvantage for me, because I have no real grasp of whether the movie even comes close to embodying Eisner’s unique vision (according to everyone else, that’s a big nay); and so I have to go with my gut and my gut wasn’t displeased. The movie was hammy and silly, but fully aware–and thoroughly enjoying–its own hammy silliness. Watching Samuel L. with his bonehead clone thugs (“Huevos,” “Rancheros,” “Pathos,” and “Dildos,” among others) camping it up to a level of ecstatic extremes is
He said – She said … Twilight
Let’s get one thing clear … If you haven’t seen Twilight and you want to go in fresh … STOP! Key plot points, the ending, spoilers and differences between the book and film will be discussed.
It’s HE (Jeff Bayer) and SHE (Morrow McLaughlin). Both read the first book (though McLaughlin read all four … in three days).
She said:
In lieu of crucial dialogue, the movie instead chose to fumble its way through uninspired montages, bland visuals, and then what I could only describe as random flotsam–scenes that seem to go nowhere and serve no purpose. Mix that in with Bella’s inconsistent narration, which felt like it had been stapled on–probably because no one on board actually knows how to tell an engaging story–and what you have is a painfully average teenage-angst
