Movie Review: DESPICABLE ME 4

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/03/2024
DESPICABLE ME 4 movie poster | ©2024 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Patrick Coffin, Joey King, Will Ferrell, Sofia Vergara, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Madison Skyy Polan, Steve Coogan Writers: Mike White and Ken Daurio Director: Chris Renaud; co-director, Patrick Delage Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: July 3, 2024 The animated DESPICABLE ME franchise began with the 2010 original, and has subsequently brought forth DESPICABLE ME 2 (2013), DESPICABLE ME 3 (2017), two MINIONS spinoffs (2015 and 2022), plus assorted animated shorts, theme park rides, and more. Now there is DESPICABLE ME 4, which services multiple plotlines well enough. It’s amusing without being especially […]Read On »


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Movie Review: IF

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/17/2024
IF movie poster | ©2024 Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG Stars: Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Fiona Shaw, Alan Kim, Bobby Moynihan, Liza Colón-Zayas, Audrey Hoffman, Steve Carell (voice), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (voice), Louis Gossett Jr. (voice), Emily Blunt (voice), Matt Damon (voice), Maya Rudolph (voice), Jon Stewart (voice), Sam Rockwell (voice), Sebastian Maniscalco (voice), Christopher Meloni (voice), Awkwafina (voice) Writer: John Krasinski Director: John Krasinski Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: May 17, 2024 One would have to be a Grinch of the highest order to object to the premise of IF, which is, broadly, that imagination makes everybody’s lives better. Written and directed by John Krasinski, the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/01/2022
MINIONS THE RISE OF GRU poster | ©2022 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Alan Arkin, Michelle Yeoh, Taraji P. Henson, Julie Andrews Writer: Matthew Fogel, story by Brian Lynch and Matthew Fogel Director: Kyle Balda Distributor: Universal Release Date: July 1, 2022 With their origin story taken care of in 2015’s MINIONS, the little yellow hench-beings (all voiced by Pierre Coffin) first seen in 2010’s DESPICABLE ME and its sequels now get another flashback feature. MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU shows (very briefly) how the Minions came to work for Gru and, at greater length, their early adventures with him. We first met Gru, as […]Read On »


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Movie Review: VICE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/24/2018
VICE movie poster | ©2018 Annapurna Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Alfred Molina, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe Writer: Adam McKay Director: Adam McKay Distributor: Annapurna Release Date: December 25, 2018 VICE is writer/director Adam McKay’s biodrama about former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney. Cheney is played here by Christian Bale, giving a terrific performance in some bravura makeup by Greg Cannom. There’s no arguing with Bale’s work as the quiet, shrewd, manipulative figure, who managed to stay very private even at his most public. The film takes Cheney from a young man in 1963 (about the only point where […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WELCOME TO MARWEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/21/2018
WELCOME TO MARWEN | © 2018 Universal

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Eiza Gonzalez, Gwendoline Christie, Janelle Monae, Merritt Wever, Leslie Zemeckis Writers: Robert Zemeckis and Caroline Thompson Director: Robert Zemeckis Distributor: Universal Release Date: December 21, 2018 WELCOME TO MARWEN is the story – sort of – of real-life artist Mark Hogancamp. In 2000, when he was thirty-eight years old, Hogancamp was set upon and beaten by five men. Hogancamp was injured so severely that he was in a coma for nine days. When he woke, his brain damage was such that he had no memory of most of his life before […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the DESPICABLE ME 3 World Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 07/04/2017
Kristen Wiig and Steve Carell at the premiere of DESPICABLE ME 3

Illumination and Universal Pictures held the World Premiere of DESPICABLE ME 3 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on June 24th. The film introduces Dru, the long-lost charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother of Gru (both voiced by Steve Carell). Dru wants to team up with Gru for one last criminal heist and the is where the fun starts. The stars of the film walked the carpet on this hot sunny day, which included: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Jenny Slate, and Pharrell Williams (Original songs and themes by). Joining them were guest, which included: […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DESPICABLE ME 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/30/2017
DESPICABLE ME 3 movie poster | ©2017 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker Writers: Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio Directors: Kyle Balda & Pierre Coffin, co-director, Eric Guillon Distributor: Universal Release Date: June 30, 2017  In DESPICABLE ME 3, there’s a moment when Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) mutters, “I miss the Minions.” Well, yes. So likely will most of the audience. Although the little yellow hench-beings are heavily promoted in the DESPICABLE ME 3 trailers, they are largely missing from this third entry in the animated series. In the original 2010 DESPICABLE ME, Gru was a professional super-villain, supported by his mad […]Read On »


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DORKING OUT – Episode 29: The We Make the Golden Globes Good Edition

By SONIA MANSFIELD 01/10/2017
Dorking Out Show | © 2016 Chris Smith/Sonia Mansfield

Hey there, dorks. In this week’s podcast, we talk about Sunday night’s Golden Globe nominations. LA LA LAND won all the awards, but Meryl Streep won the night. We’re going to talk about our favorite and least favorite moments of the show, and share how the winners affect our Oscar picks, because we take our Oscar predictions VERY SERIOUSLY. Then Smith talks about the ridiculous exercise of giving awards to artistic achievements as though they were trophies at the end of a baseball season. You can’t score LA LA LAND or MANCHESTER BY THE SEA like box scores. He’s got some interesting […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BIG SHORT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/11/2015
THE BIG SHORT | © 2015 Paramount Pictures

Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt Writers: Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, based on the book by Michael Lewis Director: Adam McKay Distributor: Paramount Release Date (theatrical): December 11, 2015 For many of us who are neither economists nor involved in the financial industry, the details of the 2007-2008 mortgage crisis that also decimated a lot of banks and a notable chunk of Wall Street remain a bit blurry. THE BIG SHORT is now here to bring much of that into sharper focus, and if the film doesn’t answer every single question, it still makes a lot […]Read On »


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THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

By PETER BROWN 03/09/2015
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 | © 2015 Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 – I found it particularly interesting that they really took THE HUNGER GAMES franchise is a crazy direction with MOCKINGJAY. Up until this point, the two previous films were centered on the annual games where a bunch of people fight to […]Read On »


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