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 [...]
Despite being released in 1992, James Foley’s stage-adapted workplace drama Glengarry Glen Ross has more relevance now than it ever could have during the 90s.
In the wake of the global financial crisis, profitability is now synonymous with mass redundancy. For proof, you need only look toward the national unemployment rate in the US, which has almost doubled since the end of the 20th century. You have a family to support? [...]
You would be forgiven for expecting a lot of sharp comedy from Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats. The plot contains an interesting mix of elements that should act as seeds for engaging, thematic humour. Unfortunately, the film restricts itself to a few moments of hilarity, leaving the rest of the story to become ‘quirky’ and rather average. It is by no means bad, of course, but rather a case of what ‘could have been’ that becomes the disappointment in the end.
In the future according to Moon, aliens have not come to annihilate us, machines have not turned against humanity and meteorites are not on a collision course with the White House. Instead, the single biggest threat facing the hero is himself. In other words, Moon is the kind sci-fi film you rarely see anymore; subtle and intelligent. Consider it the binary opposite of Transformers 2, which on paper sounds like the highest praise imaginable. However, when you consider the opposite of ‘too much’ is ‘too little’, you’ll understand where Moon falters.
