Our Idiot Brother
Oh Brother, Why Aren’t Thou?
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
R | 90 min

Our Idiot Brother feels like the work of a first time director, with a screenplay that plays out like a mediocre sitcom pilot.  Well, OIB is director Jesse Peretz‘s third entry (never have seen The Ex or The Château, and we’re guessing we probably don’t need to), and it is indeed David Schisgall and Evgenia Peretz‘s first stab at a motion picture script.  Does this explain why their stellar assembled esmble and R rating are basically laid to waste?  Maybe.  OIB is a harmless lil flick, and it’s hactually purty darn hard to even come up with anything negative to say about it (we did smile a bunch, dangit), but there’s nothing really here to see or hear, outside of folks who are Shirley Knight completists.  If that’s you, then go ahead, bother with Brother

But if yer like we, you expect a little something more than nothing (it’s basically the story of a guy who wants his dog back, but it’s not as boring as Wendy & Snoozy) when you got Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer (oh gawd, do we love this woman) playing patient sisters to ‘idiot’ brother/minor Lebowski Paul Rudd, no??  And what if you surround these fine folk with the likes of Steve Coogan, Rashida Jones, Hugh Dancy and Adam Scott???  Shouldn’t that be enuff to miss misfiring?  Apparently not.  Everyone here is game, especially a chillaxed Rudd, but everything here is also tame, and kinda lame

A better approach would have been to toss the family aside and partner Rudd up with fellow mellow head T.J. Miller, and have them do crazy stuff, like open a candle store, with zero cares in the world or bidness sense.  That idea actually pops up at the end of the movie (and no, we didn’t ruin a single thing by telling you this), but by then, any buzz you might have had, will surely have subsided.  Pass the peace pipe, and pass on this

Chin Up: Paul Rudd’s first film role was in 1992’s A Question of Ethics, a film he was so appalled by (for religious reasons – he’s Jewish, the flick was Jesus preachy), that he asked to be credited as Kenny Chin.  can’t find any video of it online, but found this still

Verdictgo: Sum Merit But No Stinking Badges 

Brother is familiar stuff at a theater near jews tomorrow

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

WE STILL LOVE YOU RUDD STUDD!!!!

The Devil’s Double
Go Ahead, Make Me Uday 
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
R | 109 min

Uday Hussein grew up rich and infamous, under the tyrannical house of Saddam, which pretty much gave him an unusual license to do as he pleased in Iraq.  And what he pleased to do turned out to be horrific and unspeakable things to his enemies, his fellow countrymen, and even to his friends.  This made him someone not to be messed with, but also a ticking time bomb waiting to explode or to be exploded.  Many people in such a volatile position (like his father) seek out body doubles, for there is safety in numbers.  Such was the unlucky luck of Latif Yahia, a former classmate of Uday’s, who juss so happened to resemble him, and had no real choice but to sign up for the one of the worst gigs around – being his… DOUBLE!

WELCOME to Lee Tamahori‘s The Devil’s Double, a shocking, yet wholeheartedly fascinating and entertaning look at Latif’s life as Uday II. Doubling our pleasure is Dominic Cooper, who not only is carrying a movie for the very first time, but is carrying it twice, as he plays both Uday and Latif (he even looks like Latif, see below)!!!  Cooper beyond pulls off the dual roles, handing in two fantastic performances that are as varied as the men themselves.  Making it all believable is the film tech-mology that lets Coop act out with and against himself in scene after scene.  That tech-mology is basically the third star of the film (apologies to the lovely Ludivine Sagnier).  To hell with body switching, and to heaven with body doubling!!!!

The devil is in the details, and Double‘s got em, but sometimes the lack of time context, and the Hollywoodizing of Latif’s story stand in the way of this becoming a truly excellent flick.  Still, it’s not often you get a Caligula meets Dave meets Scarface in the desert, with more mustaches than one could ever dream of.  Wait, do people dream of endless mustaches????

We Want To Join AA: this AA!!

Amrita Acharia

Verdictgo: Jeepers MOS DEFFFFFF Worth A Peepers

Devil is hell on a screen, currently in limited release

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

dude, is there a better NSFW named site betterer than the buttererer

Areola-51??????

probably not!!!

oh, and happy birthday to the girl with the bestestest bob of balls thyme.  WHAT! WHAT!

Colleen Moore!!!

dude, we totally mad dug on Robert Wise‘s Odds Against Tomorrow [trailer], and not juss cause it starred Ed Begley SENIOR or our distant-ish cousin or that Robert Ryan barely cracked a smile in it (duh) or that Harry Belafonte totally kicked the wicked xylophone jams, but truly madly deeply cause it (re)introduced us to one ye crazy SLASH beautiful ye olde movie ye hottie

Gloria Grahame

it was lust at first (re)sight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dude, get us a time machine so we can go to the past and become her slave.  hell, we’d even volunteer to be her toilet!!!

oh, and we woulda never had seen this had it not been for FF’s glorious RR thingie majingie.  RR totally totally rocks it, even if he keeps churning out the racism in flick after flick

LOL!!!!!!!!!

Final Destination 5
We Hope This Series Is More Neverending Than It Is Final
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
R | 92 min

Dude, if we can drag our parents to the 5th installment of some cruddy, but totally wicked fun & thighlarious horror movie, and have them both walking out with nothing but nice things to say about it, well, then that’s pretty much all we need to say, and all you need to know about how rocking Final Destination 5 was/is

We would also like to add that the full circle ending was genius species

We would also like to add that Miles Fisher is to Adam Scott, what Adam Scott is to Tom Cruise.  We wouldn’t be sirprized to learn that they are all the same person

Destination Weddings For Us:

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

Emma Bell

Chasty Ballesteros

Verdictgo: Jeepers MOS DEF Worth A Peepers

Final Destination is reved up at a theater near jews

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…