‘Zack and Miri’ lacks balls to back up risqué concept

Why is it that Kevin Smith keeps trying to make sensitive-minded and innovative movies about relationships? And why do his relationship movies keep getting dumber and more clichéd? The premise behind Zack and Miri Make a Porno—two minimum wageslaves have to make a porn film to [...]

‘Pineapple Express’ watches the Judd Apatow train roll on

The Judd Apatow train keeps on a-rollin’ with a different film involving chunky guys in their underpants emerging almost every week. As gratifying as it is to see John C. Reilly get steady work, however, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the improv tangents that once stood out [...]

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