“Casa de Mi Padre” Worth a Couple of Chuckles
“A Couple of Chuckles” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Casa de Mi Padre is Will Ferrell’s latest comedy, and the first thing you notice is that the title is in Spanish. The second thing you notice about...
View Article“Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” Makes the Impossible Possible
“Making the Impossible Possible” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a love story, and I don’t mean the love that fishermen have for fishing, although there is also that. On...
View Article“Mirror Mirror” Is Surprisingly Excellent
“Surprisingly Excellent” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Mirror Mirror is the most recent Hollywood version of the fairy tale about Snow White, another version is even being released later this year, but...
View Article“The Three Stooges” Is Soitainly an Embarrassment
“Soitainly an Embarrassment” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Three Stoges: The Movie is how the publicist wants references to be made about this movie, which is so bad, it is lucky to have any...
View Article“Think Like a Man” Is Funny, but Predictable
“Funny, but Predictable” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Think Like a Man has so many characters in it that at first it is difficult to tell who is who and who is dating whom, and then by the time you...
View Article“The Five-Year Engagement” More Like the Five-Year Movie
“More Like the Five-Year Movie” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Five-Year Engagement was made by the same people who made the 2008 Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and so it must be good, right? Well, yes...
View Article“Damsels in Distress” Causes the Audience to Be in Pain
“Audience in Pain” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Damsels in Distress is the fourth movie written and directed by Whit Stillman, all of them have received favorable reviews, but I thought this was the...
View Article“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” All Right in the End
“Everything All Right in the End” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is about a hotel in India of that name, but ending in even more words of “For the Elderly & Beautiful,”...
View Article“The Dictator” a One-Joke Movie
“One-Joke Movie” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Dictator is Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest film and is not to be confused with the 1940 Charles Chaplin film, The Great Dictator, nor any of the many...
View Article“Chernobyl Diaries” or, Attack of the Chernobyl Zombies
“Attack of the Chernobyl Zombies” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Chernobyl Diaries is a horror movie that takes place at the site of the 1985 Chernobyl disaster of the meltdown of the nuclear reactor....
View Article“Snow White and the Huntsman” an Expensive Piece of Nothing
“Expensive Piece of Nothing” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Snow White and the Huntsman is the second movie about Snow White to come out in two months, and the title indicates that Hollywood is running...
View Article“Darling Companion” a Shaggy Dog Story
“Shaggy Dog Story” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Darling Companion is a pleasant little movie about a simple little subject from the beginning to the end. Written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, this...
View Article“Hysteria” about the Singular Most Popular Sex Toy
“Singular Most Popular Sex Toy” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Hysteria is about the invention of a device that is widely used, but not commonly discussed, and when it is, usually there are snickers...
View Article“Moonrise Kingdom” a Weird Piece of Crap
“Weird Piece of Crap” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Moonrise Kingdom is the latest film from acclaimed writer and director Wes Anderson, and if you thought his previous films were weird and offbeat, get...
View Article“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” Just a Ridiculous Concept
“Ridiculous Concept” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is one of those movies with a title that gives away the whole story. On the other hand, some people might be so...
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