Evidence that the Random Foreign Film of the Month Club subscription you bought him for Christmas 2005 is still good, Chris Rock has announced he'll be writing and producing a remake of last year's French comedy La premiere etoile (The First Star). Rock previously wrote and directed a remake of L'amour l'après-midi (I Think I Love My Wife, a film that would kill the original director when he finally rented it three years later), and recently produced and starred in a remake of the UK comedy Death at a Funeral, so he's no stranger to needlessly reinterpreting things. With him at the reigns, I have the feeling this will be just as "I suppose this is decent, but why not just watch the superior original?" as last time he translated a film into American English!
April 3, 2013
Now three years since Grown Ups first clued us in on Adam Sandler having good times with his friends, Grown Ups 2 is at last here to assure us that, yes, the group is still together, and still not all that concerned about ever changing out of the clothes they sleep in. And putt...
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June 14, 2012
Did you like Julie Delpy's 2007 romantic-dramedy 2 Days in Paris? Well, then just wait until you see where Julie Delpy is spending 48 hours this time! (It's New York.) Now she's ditched Adam Goldberg for Chris Rock, and sister and father have come to visit and show off their re...
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March 21, 2012
Well, the celebrity-voiced animals of Madagascar are on the run again, and this time--like CGI Garfield, Rob Schneider: Prostitute, Kal Penn's character from Van Wilder, and soon the Smurfs--they're running around Europe.
But what's stranger about this latest menagerie adventu...
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