Posts Tagged ‘john c. reilly’

Six years after he blew audiences away with Borat and three years after destroying all goodwill he previously earned with the horrendous Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen is back with The Dictator, a very quotable movie about a racist, sexist, anti-Semitic Middle Eastern dictator who travels to New York City to talk about his plans for obtaining nuclear power before the United Nations.

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There is depressing, and then there is misery. And then there is We Need to Talk About Kevin, one of the most soul-sucking movies of all time. Featuring yet another great performance by Tilda Swinton and a disturbingly alluring story, the movie is also one of the best of 2011.

Read FilmJabber’s full We Need to Talk About Kevin movie review.

I got invited to a free press screening to Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, but it was during the workday. The thought of leaving work and going to watch this idiotic-looking movie was too much to bear. So, instead, I spent $10 to watch it On Demand. That is ten dollars and an hour and a half I will never, ever get back.

Read FilmJabber’s full Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie movie review.

Carnage is one of those deliciously uncomfortable films that makes you squirm in your seat but crave for more.  Adapted from the stage play “God of Carnage”, Carnage tells the story of two couples attempting to be civil in the wake of a school altercation between their two sons, in which one hit the other in with a stick. In the face.  Minus the opening shot (which shows the incident), the entire film plays out in the apartment of Penelope and Michael Longstreet (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly), the victim’s parents.  Nancy and Alan Cowan (Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz), the perpetrator’s parents, must eat humble pie (both literally and figuratively) to try to smooth out the situation.

Read our full Carnage movie review.

Terri, the new drama-comedy starring Jacob Wysocki, Creed Bratton (as in Creed from “The Office”), Olivia Crocicchia (my, how have we grown up from “Rescue Me”!) and John C. Reilly, is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. The film, about a fat kid who wears pajamas to high school who finds himself befriended by both the principal and a pretty girl, is entertaining, but not always fulfilling.

But is it worth watching? Read our Terri movie review to find out.

John C. Reilly is filling a unique niche genre right now: two films in two years where he plays a guy who attempts to understand an overweight youth.  But Terri is no Cyrus. Despite the outward similarities of the two comedy-dramas, Reilly’s performance and relationship here strike a much different note.

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John C. Reilly is one of my favorite actors. Thankfully, I’m pleased to present a small handful of new movie stills from his upcoming movie Terri - which debuts in select theaters on July 1, 2011.

A hit at the Sundance 2011 Film Festival, “Terri” is a drama-comedy about the relationship between Terri (Jacob Wysocki), an oversized teen misfit, and the garrulous but well-meaning vice principal (John C. Reilly) who takes an interest in him.

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Between the two Hangover movies, star Ed Helms took a solo stab at comedy with the early 2011 release Cedar Rapids, a movie about a naively innocent insurance salesman who travels out of state for the first time to an insurance seminar, where he gets himself into a variety of absurd situations. Cedar Rapids is a mildly amusing comedy that never quite finds its footing.

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