If you thought Jason Bateman sniffing a cup of sperm in the poster for last year’s The Switch was distasteful, I’m dying to know what colourful adjectives you’d use to describe a scene in The Change-Up where the actor is showered in the mouth with baby poo.  Keep in mind that this is the first joke of the movie, so don’t go wasting all your best [...]

The road to happiness is not an easy one. In the new comedy Horrible Bosses from director Seth Gordon (Four Holidays), three friends find that their respectively unbearable bosses are huge obstacles on that road. They have a simple solution. Murder their bosses. What could go wrong?

The answer, of course, is everything.

The film follows three initially separate story lines. Jason Bateman (Paul) is Nick Hendricks, a corporate salary man who [...]

If only passing through airport security was a quick and painless in reality as it is for George Clooney’s character in Up in the Air, who casually slips through the draining protocol, grinning from ear to ear. And why shouldn’t he be smiling; not only is Clooney in the middle of delivering the best performance of his soaring career, he’s starring what is also the first great film of 2010.

“It’s like a screensaver!” says John Fevreau’s character upon arriving at their stunning Island resort in Couples Retreat. The line perfectly encapsulates my attitude towards the film overall, as like a screensaver, Couples Retreat is something you want to appear on-screen when you’re not around. It’s little more than a plodding slideshow of gorgeous scenery and gorgeous people, with little rom or com to speak of. If only bringing an end to its insufferably drawn-out 110 minute runtime just meant wiggling the mouse.