My sometimes annual summer stomping grounds on the Central Oregon Coast has a lot of interesting entertainment events that occurred there in its past and unknown to most people. While Hollywood has been there to film some well-known movies in past decades (mostly in Astoria up north)–one particular movie filmed there still resonates today and ...
Dear Board of Education, Teachers, Superintendent, Principals, and Parents: I write this letter in order to help you understand what a powerful and essential movie Crash is. I do realize it has some violence, language, and sexual content. However, its revelations about life in America far outshine its negatives. Particularly being a part of an ...
1. Tropic Thunder This is a hilarious and inventive movie starring Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Junior amongst others stars such as Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise and Jack Black. This epic comedy is set in the jungle in and bordering Laos and also includes scenes in Hollywood, California. The concept of this movie revolves around ...
Michael Dowse’s “Goon” is a hilariously gladiatorial man-poem to semi-pro hockey, adeptly cast and executed. “Goon” is everything a film about a bumbling Hockey enforcer, or Goon with a heart of gold should be. The tale of Doug Glatt is a role primed for the affectionately dense Stiflerisms of Seann William Scott – minus the ...
It is a difficult job to try and recommend funny movies to anyone else. One person’s sense of humor is so much different from another’s and one person might sit in stoic silent while another is rolling in the aisle. When I set out to create this list of the top 10 funniest movies of ...