SNL skit torturously stretched out and unrestrainedly pottied up. (A villain named von Cunth. Hence, “Fuck you, Cunth,” etc.) In the result, the original models (TV’s MacGyver primarily, but Rambo, Commando, and cousins) are invariably funnier than the spoof. Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer, Powers Boothe; directed …
If they’d spent half as much time on the jokes, relationships, characters, and yes, even plot as they did on the late ‘90s wardrobe, goofy hairstyling, and tacky makeup…it might have been a fun film about bumbling white trash looking to better its lot via $17 million armored-car heist. (Has …
Following cheerfully uncomfortable work in Welcome to Me and Diary of a Teenage Girl, Kristen Wiig keeps going there, this time taking on the role of a woman trying to help an interracial gay couple to produce a baby. Co-starring and written and directed by Sebastien Silva (Crystal Fairy).
James Thurber's nigh-unto-perfect short story about a little man with big daydreams gets the therapy-culture treatment from director and star Ben Stiller. No more flights of magnificent fancy as a means of coping with mundanity. No, now it's time to break the shackles and make all your dreams come true. …
From the trailer: "After 10 years apart, this brother and sister will learn that life sometimes falls apart before it comes together." Bill Hader is a sad gay, a failed actor staying with his sister, the midlifey Kristen Wiig. Conversations ensue.
In essence a spoof of Walk the Line, to do with a sort of cut-rate Johnny Cash (a Johnny Wampum maybe), although the protagonist's music branches out further than the real Cash's into the groves of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, punk rock (ahead of its time), trend-setters and -followers in …
Open-faced Kristen Wiig stars as Alice, a borderline-personality woman who believes everything Oprah tells her about being a special person who deserves to win. And who, when she wins $87 million dollars in the lottery, decides to host a TV show about...herself. What starts out looking like a quirky attack …
Petite, apathetic Ellen Page finds a new calling — as "Babe Ruthless — in the rough-and-tumble of Austin roller derby, leading to a calendar conflict between the championship game and, her mother's dearest dream, the Bluebonnet Beauty Pageant. Drew Barrymore, who plays a minor supporting part, takes to the director's …
The ten-minute tournament — an over-produced Decathlon after the fashion of TV’s American Ninja Warrior — does nothing but rehash past glory and pad a hulking two-and-a-half hour (!) running time. Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) now works as a high level anthropologist at the Smithsonian. It’s here that she meets …
The oldening of Ben Stiller, who directs, stars, and co-writes here, continues apace. It’s not just the sort-of sad, mostly doomed attempt to recapture (silly) lightning in a (men’s fragrance) bottle 15 years after his first story about the titular superdim supermodel. (Though the few times he manages it are …