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The Razzies Celebrate 40 Years of Schlock — John Wilson Interview

March 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment

Click here to listen to the interview. The annual interview with Head Berry, John Wilson, founder of the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation, is one of the high points of my year.  Now celebrating its 40th year of giving bad films what they deserve, the Razzies will mark the occasion by taping its ceremony for later broadcast.  If you’ve… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Awards, Adam Sandler, ALL ABOUT STEVE, bad movies, CATS, JACK AND JILL, John Travolta, klieg light, Madonna, MOMMIE DEAREST, Oscar, RAMBO: LAST BLOO, Razzie Award, Rip Torn, Sandra Bullock, SHOWGIRLS, SWEPT AWAY, Sylvester Stallone, THE FANATIC, Tom Green

BRIGSBY BEAR — Kyle Mooney & Dave McCary Talk Trust, Wardrobe, and Matzo Ball Soup.

July 25, 2017 By 1 Comment

BRIGSBY BEAR — Kyle Mooney & Dave McCary Talk Trust, Wardrobe, and Matzo Ball Soup.

BRIGSBY BEAR is a unique creation. An absurdist comedy that heralds the triumph of innocence over cynicism, it is heartwarming in its celebration of creativity as applied to obsessive fandom, in this case of the eponymous star of a kid’s television show. It’s that last part that I wanted to discuss with Kyle Mooney and… Read More »

Tagged With: Canter’s, creativity kidnaping, Golden Raspberry Awards, Greenblatt’s Deli, Halle Berry, La Brea Tar Pits, Langer’s, matzo ball soup, Obsessive fandom, Razzies, Sandra Bullock, Sarah May Burton, Trauma, YouTube

A MINIONS of Diminishing Returns

July 12, 2015 By 1 Comment

A MINIONS of Diminishing Returns

It must have seemed like such a good idea.  Take the loveable little yellow minions from DESPICABLE ME and star them in their own movie.  Certainly the eponymous MINIONS features much of what made them so irresistible. There’s that burbling mélange of human and Minion-esque language. The ebullient nature, the eagerness to please, and that… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, comedy, DESPICABLE ME, Jon Hamm, kids, London, MINIONS, narrative, New York Orlando, prequel, Sandra Bullock, super villain

35th Annual Razzie Awards — John Wilson is Still Fighting the Good Fight

February 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

35th Annual Razzie Awards — John Wilson is Still Fighting the Good Fight

I learned a long time ago that it’s pretty much impossible not to get facetious with the founder and Head Berry of the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation. John Wilson, author, raconteur, and bringer down of bloated egos, began his valuable public service 35 years ago, and through the years his righteous drubbing of all that… Read More »

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Paul Feig Can Take THE HEAT

January 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Paul Feig Can Take THE HEAT

My favorite part of talking with Paul Feig about THE HEAT on June 6, 2013 happened right before we started the interview.  Having sworn off coffee, he was sipping tea (see photo) and telling me how much he missed a cup o’ java.  When I offered to move my coffee where he couldn’t see it,… Read More »

Tagged With: Arrested Development, BRIDESMAIDS, comedy, director, gender, Katie Dippold, Marlon Wayans, melissa mccarthy, narrative, Paul Feig, pearl choker, Sandra Bullock, sipping tea, Tony Hale

THE PROPOSAL

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE PROPOSAL

What almost saves THE PROPOSAL from itself is a pair of performances by Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds that have a bold and bracing bite of snarkiness to them.  Alas, the formulaic nature of the script requires that they both warm up to each other and in the process, while their characters find true love,… Read More »

Tagged With: Betty White, comedy, green-card marriage, romance, Ryan Reynolds. Alaska, Sandra Bullock

THE BLIND SIDE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE BLIND SIDE

THE BLIND SIDE takes what in lesser hands would have been a prime example of the hopelessly hackneyed and saccharine sub-genre of holiday feel-good flick, sports division, and, instead, makes of this uplifting true story a refreshingly sober film that brings good and surprisingly wholesome good cheer. The true story is of how Michael Oher… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, football, foster children, high school football, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Michael Oher, Oscar-winning performance, Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Texas, THE BLIND SIDE

GRAVITY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

GRAVITY

Alfonso Cuaron’s GRAVITY is a masterpiece of both action and psychology. It is a film that sends its audience home with many things to ponder, and many lessons learned. It also sends that audience home with a whole new appreciation of air, and I’m not sure that’s an accident. So abundant here on the surface… Read More »

Tagged With: 3D, Alfonso Cuaron, George Clooney, meteor, Sandra Bullock, Sci-fi, space station, stranded in space, survival, vaccuum of space

John Wilson Presents the 2011 Razzie Awards

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

I’ve interviewed John Wilson, founder and Head Berry of the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation, every year since 1997. The award, the Razzie, given in a variety of categories to single out the worst of the worst from the previous year’s cinematic flops, is an antidote to the hoopla surrounding those other awards shows. In particular,… Read More »

Tagged With: ALL ABOUT STEVE, bad film, Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation, GRAF, Head Berry, John Wilson, LITTLE FOCKERS, Liza Minnelli, Razzies, Sandra Bullock, SEX AND THE CITY 2, unique categories

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