Author: Sarah Esterman

It has been a couple of years since we’ve had a hilarious yet smart film from the perverted, immature mind of producer Judd Apatow. Last year’s Funny People was anything but funny and Year One left a lot to be desired.

At first glance, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time seems like a film doomed to fail. With Jake Gyllenhaal starring as Dastan, the Prince of Persia, the film held little promise. Fortunately, the unlikely casting choice turned out to be all right.

There are a lot of sweet films playing at local theaters this week and unless you’re graduating to be an unfortunate statistic in the boomerang generation, you probably don’t have time to pick out the best ones. But don’t worry about it—we’ve searched through them for you.

Often, when a tale that you’ve been told practically your entire life—whether it’s through movies or books—becomes new again and is re-adapted for film, it is fairly easy to follow the plot.

There are a lot of sweet films playing at local theaters this week and unless you’re the king or queen of finals procrastination, you probably don’t have the time to pick out the best ones. But don’t worry about it—we’ve searched through them for you.

It’s clear early on in Just Wright that the film is set in a Cinderella-like dreamland. Not only is the setup—a professional basketball player falls for some regular girl he meets at a gas station—unrealistic, the film portrays the New Jersey Nets as being the all-stars of the league.

There are a lot of sweet films playing at local theaters this week and unless you spent your weekend thanking the sun gods while lounging around in the wonderful weather, you probably don’t have the time to pick out the best ones.

Whenever I find myself laughing out loud at things like, for example, an innocent-looking old woman—who could be my own grandmother with her cropped, curly white hair and frumpy pink sweater

There is not much to like about Marvel’s made-up billionaire inventor Tony Stark. He is a rude and obnoxious womanizer, and has yet to realize that the universe does not revolve around him.

There are a lot of sweet films playing at local theaters this week and unless you’ve spent the last week staring at a bottle of José Cuervo counting down the minutes until Cinco de Mayo, you probably don’t have the time to pick out the best ones. But don’t worry about it—we’ve searched through them for you.

Often, when watching one of the many ridiculous documentary-style television shows on the Discovery Channel, TLC, or the like (e.g., I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant, anything on Shark Week, etc.), there are those cheesy moments in which the creators attempt to reenact the scene that the interviewees are talking about.