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Arizona / Film Festivals / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published April 12, 2010 · Last modified May 13, 2011
This past Thursday the Phoenix Film Festival kicked off their 10th Anniversary at the Harkins Scottsdale 101 in Phoenix, Arizona. Over the past ten years the Phoenix Film Festival has given many Phoenicians the...
Dreamworks has always been hit or miss for me. Their latest effort How To Train Your Dragon (available in 3D) is a hit. The animated film is about a young Viking named Hiccup, voiced...
We’ve all heard the story before: a nerdy guy, mediocre looking best, meets a gorgeous, popular girl and strangely enough, they hook up. Yeah, you know the one. The new film She’s Out of...
by Chris Coffel · Published October 30, 2009 · Last modified January 29, 2010
Let me start this review off by letting you know up front it will be pretty biased. I absolutely love the Coen Brothers. They are by far my favorite directors and can do no...
If you’ve seen any zombie movies or read Max Brooks’ “Zombie Survival Guide,” then you know the key to actually surviving a zombie threat is by having a few rules to follow, and things...
Comedy / Guest Articles / Television
by Chris Coffel · Published September 18, 2009 · Last modified October 8, 2010
Bored to Death is the new HBO series starring Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson (yes, you read that correctly, Ted Danson). The series takes place in New York and focuses on the...
Comedy / Guest Articles / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published August 24, 2009 · Last modified January 29, 2010
Eight years after running off the stage screaming during a high school production of “The Wiz,” Marc Pease still finds himself living in the past. This is the plot of the new film The...
by Chris Coffel · Published August 16, 2009 · Last modified January 29, 2010
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen,” is how the great French writer Francois de La Rochefoucauld summed up love. Dictionary.com describes love as “a profoundly tender, passionate...
Comedy / Guest Articles / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published July 24, 2009 · Last modified September 30, 2011
This is a story about boy meets girl, but it is not a love story. This is what the narrator from the new romantic comedy, (500) Days of Summer, directed by Marc Webb and...
Comedy / Guest Articles / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published July 20, 2009 · Last modified January 29, 2010
Whatever Works is the new comedy from writer/director Woody Allen. The film takes place in New York, (did you honestly think a Woody Allen movie could take place anywhere else? Fuggetaboutit!), with Larry David...
The year is 1933. America is in the heart of the Great Depression. Gangsters have style. The Giants are still in New York. American automobiles are tops in the world. Bank robbers are legends....
Sam Mendes strikes gold again with his latest film, Away We Go, starring John Krasinski (TV’s The Office) and Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live) and written by Dave Eggers (upcoming script for the movie...