When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods become rekindled, wild sides rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drinking, brawling, and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
I have not heard so much filth in a long time. It looks like they are having fun, but not all women talk like that, right?
This trailer is hilarious.
Directed by Craig Johnson and after watching the trailer, I had a pleasant laugh. Wilson may prove to be hilarious. The poster is not all that engaging because it shows two men at a urinal—big deal.
The trailer is hopeful. Lauren Dern has proved quite the actress of late. In the Fault in Our Stars and Wild, she played a mother, while in Wilson, she plays and wife and an uncaring mom.
Woody Harrelson stars as Wilson, a lonely, neurotic, and hilariously honest middle-aged cynic who reunites with his estranged wife, played by Laura Dern and gets a shot at happiness when he learns he has a teenage daughter, played by Isabella Amara. He has never met. In his uniquely outrageous and slightly twisted way, he sets out to connect with her.
Based on a graphic novel of the same name, the movie expands the book’s events beyond its single-page graphic novel style vignettes. The characters develop further by filling in the blanks, and the characters are flawed. With that, the movie might be worth a watch if you like funny, making fun of people’s tragic lives.
Directed by Ken Marino, How to Be a Latin Lover stars Eugenio Derbez in the cross-culture movie with more of a Latin flare than a true American comedy. Eugenio plays a very handsome and very young Maximo who dreams of being rich without ever having to work a day in his life.
Having made a career of seducing rich older women, he marries a wealthy woman more than twice his age. 25 years later, spoiled and bored from waking up next to his now 80-year-old wife. He gets the surprise of his life when she ends up dumping him for a younger car salesman.
Forced out of his mansion and desperate for a place to stay, he must move in with his estranged sister, Sara, played by Salma Hayek, and her nerdy but adorable son, Hugo, in their small apartment. Eager to return to the lap of luxury, Maximo uses his nephew’s crush on a classmate to get to his new target-her grandmother, Celeste, a widowed billionaire.
As Maximo tries to rekindle his powers as a Latin lover, he bonds with his nephew Hugo, and he learns that being a Latin lover means that loving money isn’t as important as the love of your family.
Here is another trailer. The boy is hilarious.
Written and directed by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta, Everybody Love Somebody follows the young and beautiful Clara Barron, played by Karla Souza, who seems to have everything—a great job as an OB-GYN. She even has a magnificent house in LA and a big, fun-loving Mexican family.
But the one thing Clara hasn’t figured out is her love life. Pressured by a family wedding in Mexico, Clara asks a co-worker to pose as her boyfriend for the weekend festivities—the only surprise when her ex-boyfriend (and family favorite) suddenly shows up after disappearing from her life completely.
Torn, Clara must decide between going back to the past or opening her heart to new and unexpected possibilities. In an adventure full of laughter, she learns that sometimes it takes the whole crazy family to help you find crazy love.
I know we should think Snatched is funny, but being kidnapped in a foreign country doesn’t seem like a funny situation.
It all starts after her boyfriend dumps her on the eve of their exotic vacation. Impetuous dreamer Emily Middleton, played by Amy Schumer, persuades her ultra-cautious mother, Linda, played by Goldie Hawn, to travel with her to paradise.
Opposites, Emily and Linda realize that working through their differences as mother and daughter – in unpredictable, hilarious fashion – is the only way to escape the wildly outrageous jungle adventure they have fallen into.
Kidnapping occurs in our cities, not just in other countries. It is hard for me to get excited about this movie even though Goldie Hawn is starring in the comedy.
Directed by Tom McGrath, The Boss Baby is a hilariously universal story about how a new baby’s arrival affects a family, told from a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7-year-old named Tim.
He wears a suit, speaks with the voice and wit of Alec Baldwin, and stars in the animated comedy with a sly, heart-filled message about the importance of family. The Boss Baby looks hilarious and should appeal to the entire family.
Here is a clip from the movie. Looking funny.
Gru is back for the third time, and this looks funny.
The Blu-ray/DVD is out on the streets, and you can get the entire package with all the special featurettes. The featurettes include a mini-movie for some more laughs.
Directed by Seth Gordon, Baywatch follows devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon, played by Dwayne Johnson, as he butts heads with a brash recruit, played by Zac Efron. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
I never watched the TV Show, and I don’t think I will see the movie. Still, I wonder why are the men clad more than the women.
Directed by John Hamburg, Why Him? happens over the holidays. The story follows Ned, played by Bryan Cranston, an overprotective but loving dad, and his family visit his daughter at Stanford.
He comes to terms with his biggest nightmare. He meets his daughter’s well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend, Laird, played by James Franco. A rivalry develops, and Ned’s panic level goes through the roof when he finds himself lost in this glamorous high-tech world and learns that Laird is about to pop the question.
Here is the official trailer.
Here is the red trailer.
James Franco is really having a lot of fun with this role.
Written and directed by Warren Beatty, The Rules Don’t Apply about an aspiring young actress, played by Lily Collins, and her ambitious young driver, played by Alden Ehrenreich. They both struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire Howard Hughes, played by Beatty, for whom they work.
It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen, songwriter, and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, engaged to his 7th-grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist.
Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test but also defies Hughes’ #1 rule: they allow no employee to have any relationship with a contract actress. Hughes’ behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways. As they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, they challenge their values, which changes their lives.
I am just so happy and delighted that Beatty has a new movie that I can watch. He’s one of my favorite filmmakers.
Here is the official trailer.
Here is the final trailer.
Here is the theme song trailer.