Posts tagged Judd Apatow
GUEST CRITIC #23: Snatched
GUEST CRITIC #23: Snatched

For his debut GUEST CRITIC appearance on Every Movie Has a Lesson, please welcome Steve Pulaski, a fellow member of the Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle.  This young man has been a film critic since 2009, self-taught and reviewing films throughout his academic career.  Steve Pulaski currently writes for his personal forum, The Steve Pulaski Message Board, as well as Influx Magazine, where he serves as the lead film critic of the website.  The guy cranks out 300 reviews a year, which is an insane pace and triple what I do over here in the same amount of time.

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2017, GUEST CRITIC, Social Media, VIDEO REVIEW, SPECIALDon Shanahan2017, Snatched, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, The Banger Sisters, Kate Dippold, Trainwreck, Guest Critic series, guest review, Guest Critic, guest critic, Steve Pulaski, Steven Pulaski, The Steve Pulaski Message Board, YouTube, video review, social media, Influx Magazine, Every Movie Has a Lesson, WONC, 89.1 FM, Radio show, blogger, blogging, mixtapes, Movie Man, Judd Apatow, Ike Barinholtz, movie review, film review, Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle, CIFCCComment
MOVIE REVIEW: Trainwreck
MOVIE REVIEW: Trainwreck

The amount of love and appreciation you will garner for "Trainwreck" will entirely depend on your taste and tolerance level for its star, Amy Schumer.  The groundbreaking comedienne wrote this screenplay as a fictionalized take on herself.  If you love her brash comedy and clever subversive feminism, "Trainwreck" is a star-making arrival and a triumph as rare female-centered romantic comedy.  If you're not into the crassness and randomness of her act, the film is going to feel like episodic fits and starts within a flawed romantic comedy that feels like pieces from different and better films.

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2015, 3 STARS, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanTrainwreck, Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, LeBron James, Ezra Miller, Tilda Swinton, Judd Apatow, Vanessa Bayer, John Cena, Amar'e Stoudamire, Marv Albert, Matthew Broderick, 2015 Summer Movies, Romantic comedies, Colin Quinn, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, 2015Comment
MOVIE REVIEW: Neighbors
MOVIE REVIEW: Neighbors

That said, the peak occupied by any R-rated comedy isn’t very high and far from snow-capped among the clouds of cinema greatness.  Rarely do movies like “Neighbors” create any watershed or bedrock.  In terms of peaks and heights, let’s go ahead and just call “Neighbors” your new favorite sledding hill or deluxe tree house.  Besides, that’s not the “high” this film is looking for anyway, if you get my drift.  The target is decidedly, and rightfully, low-brow.

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2014, 3 STARS, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanNeighbors, Judd Apatow, Nicholas Stoller, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, college comedy, summer movie, R-rated comedy, The Faralley brothers, Get Him to the Greek, The Five-Year Engagement, Seth Rogen, David FrancoComment