Angels in the Outfield
1994; 1 h 42 min; PG Quote: Photographer: It looks like a prison photo. Would either of you mind smiling? The team did just win. George Knox: It was a mistake. This team can’t win. Roger: They won because there were angels out there. I was obsessed with the live-action sports kids’ movies that were so popular in the 1990s, and this genre provided many hours of television for me once they hit the home video market. But on a hot summer...
Tropic Thunder
2008. 107 minutes. Rated R. Kirk Lazarus: “I know who I am! I’m a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!” It doesn’t pass the Bechdel Test. There are gratuitous explosions. It toes the line with stereotypes. But Tropic Thunder was one of my favorite movies of 2008. It’s a movie about making a movie, which is a fantastic frame; unbeknownst to the actors who have been dropped on location in Vietnam for...
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013.179 minutes. Rated R. Quote “You show me a pay stub for $72,000 on it, I quit my job right now and I work for you.” Did you ever have an amazing piece of chocolate cake? I’m sure you have. It’s absolutely exquisite tasting, and it needs nothing added to it to improve it at all. That’s Leonardo Dicaprio and Martin Scorsese. The combination these guys have worked out, they’re chocolate cake. You...
Magic Mike
Magic Mike 110 min. Rated R. “You are the husband they never had! You are that dreamboat guy that never came along!” You know you’re a children’s librarian when you first received an e-vite that is entitled “Magic Mike” and you think you are going with your girlfriends to see a magician. I was sorely disappointed there were no rabbits coming out of hats, but I sure saw some tricks in this...
