Flashback Review: The Benchwarmers

2006 had some good comedies including “Idiocracy,” Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” and one of my all-time favorites, “Borat.” Although many movie goers laughed their butts of praising them, they had to endure unfunny stinkers like “The Shaggy Dog,” “Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties” and the […]

Flashback Review: Matilda (Sony’s Flops Vol. 1 #9)

Hello my fellow movie goers from around the globe. Let’s rewind the clock back to the year 1996. Bill Clinton was president. Nintendo 64 was released alongside “Super Mario 64” paved the wave of three-dimensional gameplay forever influencing the video game industry. Sony released the first installment of “Crash Bandicoot.” Famous people such as Anya […]

Flashback Review: Coneheads (Paramount’s Flops Vol. 1 #6)

In 1975, fresh from his stint on “Laugh-In,” Lorne Michaels creates a sketch comedy called, “Saturday Night Live, (SNL) which paved a wave of comedians including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray (replaced Chevy) Jane Curtain, Garett Morris, Laraine Newman, and both the late Gilda Radner & John Belushi. Primarily filmed in front of a […]

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Salutations fellow movie goers from across the globe. Today’s review focuses on one of Tom Hanks’ filmography as a comedic actor before he worked on dramatic roles in “Philadelphia,” “Forrest Gump,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Cast Away” among many other critically acclaimed works. Back in The 80’s, he starred in hit comedies like “Splash,” Bachelor Party,” […]

Flashback Review: Little Nicky (WB’s Flops Vol. 1 #10)

After Adam Sandler made a name of himself as an SNL cast member to transitioning into popular films like “Billy Madison,” “Airheads,” “Happy Gilmore,” “The Wedding Singer” & “Big Daddy,” he went on to establish a film company called “Happy Madison Productions.” The company’s first entry is a Rob Schneider film called, “Deuce Bigalow: Male […]

Flashback Review: Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights (Sony’s Flops Vol. 1 #4)

In 2002, Happy Madison Productions released four movies in release date order. First movie is a rom-com called, “Mr Deeds.” starring founding father of Happy Madison himself, Adam Sandler, a remake of Gary Cooper’s film of the same name, earning negative reception from critics and cinephiles. Second movie is “The Master Of Disguise,” a critical […]