MARMADUKE is the completely uncalled for screen adaptation of the durable syndicated comic by Brad Anderson and Phil Leeming. The comic is a daily one-panel deal that shows the difficulties of large dog ownership encountered by a family with a Great Dane, the eponymous Marmaduke. Screenwriters Tim Rasmussen and Vincent Di Meglio sought to expand… Read More »
FAILURE TO LAUNCH
There is one wildly funny sequence in FAILURE TO LAUNCH, an otherwise pallid and predictable slog. That it features the supporting players and a bird rather than stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey is emblematic of where this film went so very, very wrong. Parker plays Paula, a professional interventionist hired by concerned parents… Read More »