Easy guide to production
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) If the ladies from Bridesmaids met up with the trio from Bachelorette, the visual that comes to mind suggests a smackdown à la Bambi Meets Godzilla ... but a tad more savage. It's not that the Kristen Wiig/Judd Apatow/Saturday Night "Lite" romp is all that tame; … [Read more...]
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) Humor and the gentler sex have cinematically been in bed together since Mae West first uttered her suggestive one-liners (often finding herself in trouble with the Hays Code, and previously jailed on morals charges for her 1926 play entitled Sex). In her first … [Read more...]
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) Joseph Gordon-Levitt once again stars in a non-linear film that grabs hold of us with its crazy-clock hands and hurtles us forward and backward through time. But rather than employed for comedic effect -- as in Gordon-Levitt's earlier (500) Days of Summer -- here … [Read more...]
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) Do we really need another Spider-Man? Hmmm, let's see: Do we really need a new, local pizzeria that reinvents the pie, mixing surprise ingredients in with the old, delivering flavorful yet unexpected taste? Do we really need a new cover of The Kingsmen's 1963 rock … [Read more...]
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) The movie's title is erroneous. "Wanderlust," defined as "a strong desire to travel," has nothing to do with this tragic comedy. But by the film's end, the term Wanderlust perfectly encapsulates our unyielding urge to flee as far away from this bohemian bomb as … [Read more...]
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) There's no argument that a mystery drives this film. But it's not necessarily about why a man is standing on a ledge, supposedly poised to jump to his death on an unforgiving midtown Manhattan street twenty-one stories below. Rather, it's why so many strong actors … [Read more...]
