RYAN: The new Oliver Stone sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, is way too long and certainly confusifying. CAROLINE: As two non-financial wizards, we can’t relate to or understand all the jargon that this movie contains. It takes place in 2008 when the bubble burst, and mirrors what happened with Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, ..
CAROLINE: You know I have an aversion to animated films so I’ll let you go ahead and review this one. RYAN: Yes. It’s best you keep your biased opinion to yourself [laughs’. CAROLINE: I just get bored after an hour. This one is about owls and features the voices of Geoffrey Rush, Helen Mirren and ..
RYAN: Oh my God I’m dying. Oh my God I’m dying. Oh my God I’m dying. CAROLINE: Honey, WTF? RYAN: The official trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 was released last night and it’s literally the best trailer I’ve ever seen in mine entire life! I’m dying. It literally killed me ..
RYAN: Jack Goes Boating marks the directorial debut of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. CAROLINE: It’s based on a play in which he co-starred along with Daphne Rubin-Vega of Rent fame, and John Ortiz. All three actors reprise their roles in the movie, and they’ve added Amy Ryan as Phil Hoffman’s love interest. They’re all ..
CAROLINE: So there’s this new documentary Catfish that a lot of people are talking about that I was lucky enough to see a few weeks ago so no one had ruined it for me. RYAN: I’ve heard of it, of course, and you encouraged me to see it, but I know very little about it. ..
RYAN: The Town is the second directorial effort from Ben Affleck, and it’s arguably as good as his first film, Gone Baby Gone. CAROLINE: I think it’s even better; maybe a little more refined. I think we’re all just so surprised at what a good director Ben Affleck is! This is a totally compelling and ..
RYAN: You were much more excited to see Easy A than I was, probably because I’d barely seen the trailer for it. CAROLINE: I loved the trailer. It made me LOL every time, I loved the cast, it looked smart and funny and I had such high hopes… but I didn’t love the movie. Liked ..
CAROLINE: The Romantics is a pretentious, very low budget indie-feeling movie based on a book of the same title. RYAN: And the author of the novel actually wrote and directed the film. It’s got a great cast, but I couldn’t believe how low budge it was. The look of the film is very grainy, and ..
RYAN: Never Let Me Go is a sci-fi/romantic drama based on a book that you read and I didn’t. CAROLINE: I read the book years ago, and while I remember enjoying it and liking the premise, I found it slow and a tad boring. I’d say the same thing about the movie. Once you find ..
RYAN: I kinda couldn’t wait to see this in order to discern just what the eff was going on with Joaquin Phoenix. CAROLINE: His “meltdown” is legendary: retiring from acting at the peak of his career and then announcing his intentions to become a hip hop artist. Does this documentary explain the insanity? RYAN: Documentary ..
CAROLINE: Opening in limited release this week is the teen sex comedy The Virginity Hit, and I can’t say whether it’ll be one or not. I skipped the screening. How was it? RYAN: Not very inspired. It’s really just a bunch of kids talking about sex and smoking pot. The virginity hit is the hit ..
RYAN: I’m happy to see Drew Barrymore acting vs. directing in her new romantic comedy, Going the Distance, which co-stars her real-life boyfriend, Justin Long. CAROLINE: Are they dating these days? They’re so on-again, off-again. RYAN: Yes, I have it confirmed from a good source – they’re on again. CAROLINE: I think they were on ..
