The Visitor is written and directed by Thomas McCarthy who ironically also has a bit part in Baby Mama. With wry wit he shuffles the largely unknown cast through this heart warming story. Richard Jenkins of Six Feet Under snags a plum role here for a mature actor as Walter Vale, a detached Connecticut professor reluctantly sent to New York to deliver a paper he’s co-authored at a globalizatio ...
Forgetting Sarah Marshall was written by and stars Jason Segel who we know from How I Met Your Mother and Knocked Up. This is another retelling of an unkempt geek who ends up with a smokin’ lady – in this case two of TV’s hottest females Kristin Bell and Mila Kunis. Segal is Peter, a reclusive slob with a dream job – doing the sound track for a CSI-like TV show. He’s also dating the star of t ...
88 Minutes actually runs for 108 minutes and the believability goes downhill from there. Al Pacino stars as Dr Jack Gramm a forensic psychiatrist with the FBI who also teaches at the University of Washington (played by UBC). He lives a lavish lifestyle that appears beyond that of any cop or college professor for that matter and even though acting only as an advisor for the Bureau seems to hav ...