“A Million Ways to Die in the West”, Seth MacFarlane’s eagerly-anticipated follow-up to his 2012 hit Ted, should really have been titled “A Million Ways to Gross Out Audiences in a Western.”
There’s so much to like about Chef, Jon Favreau’s return to small-scale film making, that it’s hard to know where to start. But at its heart, Chef is a simple, intimate story of rebirth and reconnection.
“Million Dollar Arm” is a surprisingly engrossing and enjoyable story about chasing dreams and finding oneself in the least likely of places, brought to life with charm, grace, and humor by a talented cast led by Mad Men’s Jon Hamm.
Last Vegas is hardly the finest work to ever come from the ensemble cast it features, and it doesn’t aspire to be. Instead, it aims at delivering a whole of charm and fun, and thanks to that veteran cast of screen legends, it succeeds.
Yes, you can tell where We’re the Millers is going to end up by the end pretty much from the start of the film. But that doesn’t mean that just about everything between start and finish isn’t hilarious. It may not be the most innovative comedy of the year, but it is certainly one of the funniest.
“This is the End” is often very funny, especially if you enjoy satire that skewers Hollywood stereotypes and gags revolving around weed, masturbation, and other preoccupations usually associated with arrested development.