Peculiar Reviewer

Forget Jurassic World .   People should be lining up to see director/producer  Judd Apatow and Screenwriter Amy Schumer 's  Trainwreck , as I'm sure millions  will be once word spreads that it is a near-perfect film.  New York native Amy Schumer writes her first starring role about a lovably candid New York floozy/magazine writer named Amy, who along with her sister Brie Larson , was taught by her outspoken alcoholic father ( Colin Quinn ) at a young age that monogamy is unrealistic. In opposition to her sister's married-with-children approach, Amy follows her father's thought-to-be wise words and hooks up with a slew of guys (each a brief encounter and then she bounces), including a surprisingly funny John Cena , who dated Amy because seeing her from behind he thought she was a guy. It's not until Amy is unexpectedly assigned by her emotionally devoid boss Tilda Swinton to interview the genuinely likable sports doctor Aaron Conners ( Bill Hader ), that she

Jurassic Park was one of the possibly 6 movies we had on VHS at my house growing up. Did we watch it at least once a week for a few years straight? Sure, we didn't have Netflix, OnDemand, Hulu, Vudu - we also didn't have voodoo, or money. Our cinematic minds weren't tainted then by Computer Generated Imagery and motion-capture. We were thrilled to be breathing amongst the T-Rex's like never before. Precisely why for the much-anticipated next installment of the franchise executive produced by its own Steven Spielberg, I wanted Velociraptors not Veloci craptors .  Getting the director of the sci-fi indie Safety Not Guaranteed  ( Colin Trevorrow ) was a clever choice. One could hope for a big budget with an indie heart.  Jurassic World returns us to Isla Nublar, where the new owner of the dino park has asked his scientists to create a bigger & better experience for its declining attendees, unaware that some of his staff have become Dr. Frankenstein's. In an eff

The next big Netflix Original Series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt comes from creative kingpins Tina Fey and Robert Carlock ( SNL , 30 Rock ), who bring us a new protagonist - one that is beaming with positivity: the stupendously awkward Kimmy Schmidt. She's a small town sweetheart who's rescued from a cult ran by a manipulative preacher, where she was kept for some 15 years along with other "mole women." The preacher told the then-young teens there had been an apocalypse that wiped out every living thing... even... the... rats! Unbreakable , Kimmy Schmidt starts anew and adjusts to life in New York City, leaving her past behind and freeing herself from the "victim image" that's accompanied with a media frenzy, leachers, and Kimmy's archenemy: sympathy. If you aren't immediately sold by the opening theme song, a "mole women" interview remixed à la Charles Ramsey's "Dead Giveaway," you will be for countless other reas

There is a lot of crap out there. So when something like A Most Violent Year comes along, it is my pleasure to bring that cinematic option to you. Director J.C. Chandor 's follow-up to his engaging lost-at-sea picture All Is Lost , is the gritty crime drama A Most Violent Year . Now, I am not one to seek out crime dramas past the mid '90s, but it was clear to me watching his previous feature that Chandor is a talented new director. The film unites Jessica Chastain ( Interstellar , Zero Dark Thirty ) with her former Juilliard classmate Oscar Isaac ( Inside Llewyn Davis , W.E. ), whom she suggested for the lead after Javier Bardem dropped out.  A Most Violent Year is set in New York City during a cold winter of 1981, statistically the highest crime year the city had seen. Amidst this chilling backdrop, the ambitious owner of a growing heating-oil delivery company, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), is being investigated under suspicion of corruption, by the District Attorney. Abel