Yet another week of movies, most of which are mediocre and some of which is really, really bad. There’s no sudden push of romantic comedies out for Valentine’s Day so looking for a low-effort way of treating the lady (or man) in your life, Netflix or Blockbuster is your best bet.
If you’re looking for quality cinema and don’t mind subtitles, Persepolis and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly are gorgeous French flicks showing in Evanston. And there are those Oscar nominees for your English-speaking viewing pleasure.
Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show
It’s comedy hour (or hour and 40 minutes) with Vince Vaughn and friends. Watch them drive! Watch them talk about their lives! Watch them tell jokes!
Sometimes funny, sometimes less so, it’s like watching Comedy Central late at night with the stand-up. According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Stand-up tour doc offers laughs and amusing surprises, but doesn’t justify a runtime as long as its title.”
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
It’s a slap-stick, culture clash movie. We’ve seen it before, probably done better, but it could also get worse.
Starring Martin Lawrence as “Op-bro” (a self-help, talk show host) and Joy Bryant as his TV-star fiancé, they head back to his neck of the woods. It’s not classy, it’s not smart, it’s not fresh. But at times it can be funny. “An in-your-face double helping of fat jokes, crude slapstick, wacky Southern-black stereotypes and occasionally inspired improv,” says Justin Change for Variety.
Fool’s Gold
An attempt to make box office gold with the duo of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and it looks terrible. “Like watching blond eight-year-olds play a game of Clue, Fool’s Gold will have you seriously wondering if it was a film made for adults,” says Time Out New York.
Synopsis: Kate Hudson, is a type A intellectual, and Matthew McConaughey, as a dumb beach-bum treasure seeker, play a divorced couple who go on an adventure to find buried treasure together. Action and romance ensue. So does nonsensicalness. You will not see it.