Category Archives: comedy

“Book Club” Trailer, Movie Clips, and Poster

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Co-written and directed by Bill Holderman, Book Club follows four lifelong friends when their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.  Holderman has directed a few Robert Redford movies and directed some episodic documentary series.

Book Club looks funny but I don’t know if it’ll have the staying power with the limited demographics,  women over sixty.

The movie stars legends Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen with Don Johnson,  Craig T. Nelson, Richard Dreyfus, and Andy Garcia as their romantic interests. 

This movie clip is fun to watch Don Johnson and Jane Fonda banter back and forth.

This movie clip is so funny, and it’s great to see these legends in a scene together.

The trailer is fun to watch, and you’ll have a good laugh.

Gringo Trailers and Poster

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Directed by Nash Edgerton, Gringo looks like a lot of fun and action starring  David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton, and Sharlto Copley.

 

“I Feel Pretty” Trailer, Movie Clip, Poster & Blu-ray/DVD

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In the musical Westside Story,  Maria sings Stephen Sondheim’s lyrical song “I Feel Pretty” while she fancies herself with a new dress, “I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright! And I pity any girl who isn’t me tonight.”

Written and directed by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, I Feel Pretty is far from like Maria’s song. The story follows Renee Barrett, played by Amy Schumer, who doesn’t feel pretty or looks like the ingenue in a Sondheim musical. 

Yet, according to her own measures, Renne struggles with insecurity because she is not the perfect woman.

Like a Hans Christian Anderson fairytale, she wakes from a fall, believing she is the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet. Her new confidence empowers her to live fearlessly. Watch the movie trailer, and you will see how fearlessly she lives. So, as the old saying goes, “Is beauty only skin deep?”

The critical point of the fairy tale is what happens when she realizes her appearance never changes.

The Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming are happening now. You can catch it on Amazon if you haven’t seen it yet.

It’s a cute clip about being pretty from the inside out.

The movie also stars some stellar talent: Michelle Williams, Emily Ratajkowski, Tom Hopper, and Lauren Hutton. 

“Detective Chinatown 2” Trailer and Poster

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Directed by Sicheng Chen and following a huge success from the original Detective Chinatown, which holds the ninth place as the highest grossing film in China, we meet, once again, the madcap buddies Qin, played by Haoran Liu, and Tang, played by Baoqing Wang. Detective Chinatown 2 is just as hilarious.

They take a transatlantic trip to New York City. Qin ends up in a global detective contest with a large cash prize. The task contest requires him to locate the grandson of the godfather of Chinatown. Qin and Tang become the ‘Detective Chinatown Duo’ hot on the trail until the missing person case becomes a murder case.

Watch the video and you will see some funny antics. Chen has impeccable comedic timing. It’s just belly roll of laughter after belly roll of laughter.

Promising But Unusual “Life is a Party” Trailer

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Directed by Ben Falcone and co-written with the star Melissa McCarthy, we follow a typical storyline of a fish out of water theme that turns for the best, and everyone learns to be a better person. The plus point is that we get to laugh along the way. Watch the Life is a Party trailer and see McCarthy completely blow herself up, funny visual.

Her husband unexpectedly dumps her, as a longtime dedicated housewife, Deanna turns regret into changing her life for the best. She goes back to college – landing in the same class and school as her daughter is not in her favor or entirely sold on the idea.

Plummeting headlong into the campus experience and even making out with a college boy in the library, the increasingly outspoken Deanna — now Dee Rock — embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys. But, it is on her terms, finding her true self by becoming a college senior and taking the chances she never took before when she should have taken them – her life might have turned out different.

The movie also stars Debby Ryan and Gilliam Jacobs.

“Game Night” Trailer

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Co-directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, Game Night is a hilarious movie that follows a group of friends with a standard get-together for game nights. Games consist of charades, board games or whatever the host provides. The group finds themselves trying to solve a murder mystery after one of the hosts, played by Kyle Chandler, takes the game up a notch. The game becomes real, and it is just not for fun anymore.

Writer Mark Perez crafts a brilliant, clever story that takes the cat-and-mouse theme to a new level. Rachal Adams and Jason Bateman are still the show in the movie trailer. I recommend you watch it. You’ll have great laughs, and it will lift your spirits.

“Finding Your Feet” Trailer, Poster, and Clip

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Directed by Richard Loncraine, Finding Your Feet follows ‘Lady’ Sandra Abbott, played by Imelda Staunton, a Harry Potter alumni, discovers that her husband of forty years, played by John Sessions, is having an affair with her best friend, played by Josie Lawrence, she seeks refuge in London with her estranged, older sister Bif, played by Celia Imrie.

Sandra is a fish out of the water next to her outspoken, serial dating, free-spirited sibling who lives on an inner-city council estate. But different is just what Sandra needs and she reluctantly lets Bif drag her along to a community dance class where she meets her sister’s friends, Charlie,  played by Timothy Spall, also a Harry Potter alumni, Jackie, played by Joanna Lumley, and Ted, played by David Hayman.

This colorful group of defiant and energetic third-agers starts to show Sandra that retirement is in fact only the beginning and that divorce might just give her a whole new lease of life and love.

Here is a cute movie clip of a couple of Harry Potter alumni.

Watch the trailer and you’ll have some good laughs.

Huge Gift of Magic “Foxtrot” Outstanding Movie Clip

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Written and directed by Samuel Maoz, Foxtrot is a cute little movie, which is evident by the cute short clip below. In his second film, the story originates from Maoz’s experience with his daughter about 20 years ago in Israeli. An unforgettable day developed into an inspiration for Maoz’s, the award-winning Foxtrot. 

An intense and phenomenal examination of what writer Paul Auster called “The Music of Chance.” He refers to David Mitchell’s 1999 novel Ghostwritten, dealing with the nature of random chance.

He turned down his daughter’s request for money to take a cab to school when she was running late. He insisted she takes the bus. He heard 20 minutes later that a terrorist attack hit the bus line she was riding.

He learned later she missed the bus. Still, he experienced that distressing window of time when he thought his daughter was dead. He felt compelled to take responsibility for sending her to her death.

Watch the clip below, and you will see why reviewers call the movie a legitimately stunning piece of work. 

The movie projects confidence in structure and tone, and the imagery is striking and memorable—some of the most impressive, extraordinary imagery of the year.

“Blockers” Green & Red Band Trailers, Poster

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Directed by Kay Cannon, Blockers follow three parents who discover their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at prom. The parents launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal. Leslie Mann (The Other Woman, This Is 40), Ike Barinholtz (Neighbors, Suicide Squad) and John Cena (Trainwreck, Sisters) star in Blockers, the directorial debut of Kay Cannon. She is the writer of the Pitch Perfect series.

The poster is wacky and makes me wonder which are the kids. Parents seem more like kids, while the kids seem more like adults.

The movie is streaming and the Blu-ray and DVD are available. You might want to watch it if you haven’t seen it yet. Like I said, the movie is pretty wacky. You will need to be in the mode for such vulgar wackiness.

Here are a couple of movie clips. One is from the trailer and the other is unique and stands on its own but looks like it just got blocked. Hopefully, it will be unblocked soon. It is a good movie clip that moves the story along well.

“The Leisure Seeker” Trailer and Clips

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Directed and co-written by Italian Paolo Virzì, The Leisure Seeker follows a vintage recreational vehicle as John, played by Donald Sutherland and Ella Spencer, played by Helen Mirren, take one last road trip from Boston to the Hemingway House in the Florida Keys.

The road trip movie is about John and Ella arriving at the Keys before his Alzheimer’s and her cancer can catch up with them. They base the movie on a novel, so the story is rich and thought-provoking.