Comedy

The Devil Wears Prada

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  • Title: The Devil Wears Prada
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Adapting Lauren Weisberger best-selling novel, 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada stars Anne Hathaway as recent college graduate desperate for employment who takes a job as the second assistant to the unreasonable and demanding editor of a fashion magazine (Meryl Streep). While initially overwhelmed in a world she knows nothing  about (and openly scoffs), she eventually finds her footing, although her friends begin to fear she’s lost her soul.

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The Invite

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  • Title: The Invite
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Easily comparable to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, both in its subject manner and its origins and staging from a stag play, The Invite is nothing more or less than an evening two couples spend together leading to arguments, arousal, suffering, and, ultimately, something nearing understanding. Although at times uncomfortable, it’s an evening you don’t want to miss.

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Minions & Monsters

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  • Title: Minions & Monsters
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The seventh movie of the Despicable Me franchise, and the third to focus squarely on the odd yellow henchmen, takes one tribe of Minions (after a brief history lesson) to Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties. All voiced by writer/director Pierre Coffin, the most important Minions of the film are James (the dreamer and storyteller), Henry (James’ best friend), the hearing impaired Ed, and, to a lesser extent, the dickish leader of the group appropriately named Dick.

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Herbie Rides Again

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  • Title: Herbie Rides Again
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Made six years after The Love Bug, Herbie Rides Again brings back the willful Volkswagen Beetle, and the setting of the firehouse, but nothing else. With Jim Douglas having left to race in Europe. Herbie has been left in the hands of his landlady Mrs. Steinmetz (Helen Hayes) who he seems to enjoy driving around and who is the last holdout preventing Alonzo A. Hawk (Keenan Wynn) from demolishing the area to build a new skyscraper.

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Spaceballs: The Movie Review

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  • Title: Spaceballs
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Released 5 years after the conclusion of the original Star Wars trilogy, and long before any glimmer of new Star Wars films ever being made, with Spaceballs writer/director Mel Brooks lampooned the cultural phenomenon along with countless other sci-fi properties including Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, and others. Although Brooks would go on to do other parodies in a similar vein, arguably learning the wrong lesson from the film, Spaceballs marks the end of the director’s better work which peaked far earlier in the early 1970s.

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