Comedy
Not all remakes are disasters. Most are, to be honest, but not all. A successful remake has to be true in some meaningful way to the original but have a value and integrity that is independent of its original. The 2016 version of The Magnificent Seven is the first on my list of five remakes worth watching.
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After nearly 5 billion red envelopes shipped, we’ve learned a lot about what you–our members–like to watch. We’ve scoured the data. State by state. Genre by genre. And what have we learned?
This nation of ours loves us some Drama. Year after year, we’ve seen the Drama genre maintain its place atop the podium with close to a billion shipments! Every now and then, TV Shows or Comedy will pull an upset, but it doesn’t last long.
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Did you know that one of DVD Netflix’s most rented movies from 2014 was Guardians of the Galaxy? I know I had it in my rental queue as soon as I saw the previews. I love the way that the movie combined action and humor to make something that was exciting AND family-friendly!
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Over the years, Brad Pitt has developed a presence as an actor with a sort of shambling grace that belies a stubbornly intense spirit. This presence hit its apex with his performance in Moneyball (2011). This list of movies represents the films where Pitt allows us to see that while everything may look easy from the outside, inside there is considerable unnoticed struggle.
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Sometime at the end of the 2000’s, Matthew McConaughey seemed to have decided it was time to start looking for interesting roles in movies that have something more going for them than just light laughs and parading around shirtless. It took him almost two years, but he found it—one of my favorite Matthew McConaughey movies—The Lincoln Lawyer. Here we look at that film and several other McConaughey movies that were actually great.
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Sandra Bullock has an innately likeable screen presence. She comes across as the immensely fun and pretty neighbor who grew up across the street from you. In 2009, Bullock was in three movies, two of which were huge, and one of those won her an Academy Award. 2009 was the year of The Proposal, All About Steve, and The Blind Side. The Proposal was a lot of fun, and then there was The Blind Side.
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The concept of the bucket list was created by screenwriter Justin Zackham. He had made a list of things he wanted to do before he kicked the bucket, and appropriately called it his “Bucket List.” So that begs the question…what movies do you want to see (or see again) before you kick the bucket? Here’s my Movie Bucket List for you. These are the movies I love and think everyone should watch (or rewatch) at some point in their lives.
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith was one our most rented movies of 2005. Marriage has gotten stale and predictable for John and Jane Smith, an average-on-the-surface suburban couple. The husband and wife dully coexist until they discover that they share the same undercover profession: they're both assassins, working for competing firms. Being assigned to kill your own spouse? Well, that certainly adds spice to a mundane relationship! In recent years, there's been a rebirth in the spy comedy genre with films like Kingsman infusing flashy, sleek espionage action with humor and gags. Check out these hilarious spy films, both old and new.
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In Sideways, and indeed in all of the films on this list, Payne explores a familiar theme in his movies: the crisis point of a person’s life—that moment when the cumulative misdeeds and untaken opportunities finally pile up on a person and force them into a complete reexamination of their life (often comically disappointing) and assessment of what to do next.
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