COP OUT (2010) backpedals, gives the slip, has an alibi, revokes, uses pretext, welshes, withdraws
Dir. Kevin Smith
Alamo Drafthouse Village, 3/7/10, 5:00pm
Kevin Smith’s most recent film, his first with a script that is not his own, is his best film since Clerks 2. That hilarious statement is much funnier than most of the jokes in this film that is part pastiche, part homage, and all train wreck.
The water’s fine in the HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (2010)
Dir. Steve Pink
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 2/15/10, 7:30pm
There are a few moments in popular cinema history when titles are so perfectly transparent, so ridiculously stupid, and so unpretentious that popular culture recognizes them as genius. The perfect example is the 2006 aviation-thriller Snakes on a Plane, but other recent examples include Harold and Kumar [...]
