There’s a scene in Our Idiot Brother where the titular character Ned, played by Paul Rudd, is exposing his sheltered nephew to the comedy stylings of The Pink Panther movies. It’s an interesting inclusion as the film, as the star of those movies, Peter Sellers, would draw acclaim for playing an idiotic character who was confused for a wise man in Being There. Rudd’s Ned is not a character on... 

I’ve been on Facebook since my return-to-college days, when the social networking site was still restricted only to people in college networks. Since then, the site has exploded, opening its doors to everyone. Over time it’s been interesting to see what friends I have from different circles, and how many of those circles cross over as other friends’ friends are revealed. It’s a reminder of... 

It’s a running gag in Cop Out that the detectives played by Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan have probably watched too many bad buddy-cop movies, and resort to a clichéd, abused use of that dialog when playing “bad cop” with a suspect. Perhaps the unfortunate (and unintended) punchline of the joke is that most of the movie sounds like a bad buddy-cop movie, even when the characters aren’t supposed... 

When someone puts a fresh spin on something tried and true, it normally is met with mixed results: those who welcome change by accepting the newer version and then those who stick to fundamentals and tend to say you are ruining a perfectly good thing. That is kind of how it is with Kevin Smith’s new film Cop Out. He is putting a new twist on the 80’s buddy cop genre and I find it to be particularly...