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Comedy writer.
Short film director.
Unqualified Filmbro.

Favorite films

  • The Princess Bride
  • La La Land
  • Knives Out
  • Moneyball

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  • Rush Hour

    ★★★★

  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall

    ★★★★★

  • Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

    ★★★★

  • Everybody Wants Some!!

    ★★★★★

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  • Rush Hour

    Rush Hour

    ★★★★

    Tucker and Chan’s chemistry is what makes this film work as well as it does - and it’s likely what got them two sequels. A lot of the dialogue and banter is so quick and so fun, I can see what makes this one of the more popular action comedies of the last few decades.

    That said, I couldn’t shake the feeling that Chris Tucker took a lot from Eddie Murphy’s performances as Axel Foley for his role here, and that detracted from the viewing experience. In a bubble, though, this is fun and I’d see it again.

  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall

    Forgetting Sarah Marshall

    ★★★★★

    Most of the main cast was around my age when they made this movie and that makes me feel motivated to get my Hawaiian murder-mystery written and made.

    Let’s get to work. #DraculaMusicalStillFucks

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  • Home Team

    Home Team

    ★½

    “Sandler, Rock, and Schneider got to do The Longest Yard and Ferrell got to do Kicking & Screaming, I should get to do a football movie!”
                                 - Kevin James, week 3 of COVID

    Seriously, this movie is every cliche you’ve ever heard in the kids-sports-comedy genre. Let’s just run down some of my (using this term ironically) favorite, ahem, plays.

    1. Happy Madison Productions cast Jackie Sandler -…

  • Top Gun: Maverick

    Top Gun: Maverick

    ★★★★½

    I’ll start this review with how my theatrical experience began: after the IMAX trailer for Jurassic World: Dominion played, a man no younger than 60 years old, seated in the row in front of me, stood up and yelled “TURN IT DOWN!” to a crowd of ~40 people in, again, an IMAX theater. I’d like to think he’s fully deaf after Top Gun: Maverick, because if he doesn’t enjoy loud sounds as much as the rest of us, what right does…