Peculiar Reviewer

It's not a boy's game anymore, says The Heat director Paul Feig ( Freaks and Geeks , Bridesmaids ). So who can fill the seats for the first female buddy cop movie ever - Bullock & McCarthy - comic heavyweights pushing the boundaries of a new element to the buddy cop genre that's long overdue. In her feature film debut, screenwriter Katie Dippold ( Parks and Recreation ) puts it out there with her uproarious screenplay, but it ultimately takes two heavyweights to get the job done. Calculated FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn ( Sandra Bullock ) is forcibly teamed with a tough Irish Detective Shannon Mullins ( Melissa McCarthy ) to bring down a Russian mobster in Boston. McCarthy cruises the streets in her beat up classic Rambler, busting down doors, and busting up perps. She's a bonafide movie star, Boston-drifting with Bullock, who got her training in 1994 on Speed - shot calling them all. Their contrasting methods of catching smooth criminals causes some issues f...

It's a rough existence doing cheap tricks on the streets of New York, not being believed by the onlooker. At least it was for the illusionists in Now You See Me , until the four: Jesse Eisenberg (a cocky card conjurer), Woody Harrelson (a former TV mentalist who swindles people by keeping their dirty secrets for a price), Isla Fisher (who almost drowned filming her magic trick scene. What a trouper!), and Dave Franco (little bro peep of James Franco with a sleight of hand), all receive a mysterious tarot card to meet at an unknown building at the same time. The illusionists realize that they've all been handpicked by a master magician to perform an extravagant magic trick. They later land a gig at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas performing together in front of a large audience as "The Four Horsemen," which is invested by Michael Caine. The ultimate show is that the four pull off bank heists on stage and reward their audience with the money. Mark Ruffalo ...

Out now on DVD is Jonathan Levine 's  Warm Bodies , a zombie romance (a zombromance) that did considerably well at the box office. The film is based on Isaac Marion's novel of the same name. Levine's previous films, which include The Wackness and 50/50 , have pitter pattered around broken hearts, as does his latest  Warm Bodies. To keep Julie ( Teresa Palmer ) safe from an undead feeding fest in a post-zombie apocalyptic airport, a zombie in a hoodie known as "R" ( Nicholas Hoult ) hides the girl in an abandoned airplane - a sanctuary where the zomboy can listen to vinyl and kick back after a long day's flesh feast in his reclining aisle seat. R looks a bit like a descendant of Edward Scissorhands; he's a tender and loving zomboy, struck by an unexpected love. Julie can see that good in him, even though he's the one who had earlier eaten her boyfriend Perry's brains in order to...