It's Movie Time

Denmark becomes enlightened but not without some dangerous liaisons.

Film reviewed: This is 40

by hosts John DeSando and Carolyn Bruck

It's Movie Time has won numerous national awards including LA Press Club, MarCom, Silver Microphone, Communicator, and Hermes Creative honors.

John DeSando is also co-host of WCBE’s Cinema Classics and appears on Fox 28’s Idol Chatter and Man Panel. Carolyn Bruck is a news anchor for ABC 6/Fox 28.

John and Carolyn, neither near 40 years old, review a comedy replete with issues for those turning that infamous age.

Turning 40 is apt Apatow.

This is 40
Grade: B
Director: Judd Apatow (Knocked Up)
Screenplay: Apatow
Cast: Paul Rudd (Our Idiot Brother), Leslie Mann (The Change-UP)
Rating: R
Runtime: 134 min.
by John DeSando

John and Carolyn enjoy a film about sex that is not sexual.

It's fun, but you can bet your Bilbo, it's long.

Hopkins is Hitch.

Not "comedy" as we know it.

The Comedy
Grade: B-
Director: Rick Alverson
Screenplay: Alverson, Robert Donne, Colm O’Leary
Cast: Tim Heidecker
Rating: NR
Runtime: 94 min.
by John DeSando

Cool, sentimental, and melodramatic coming of age.

It's lonely on the trail and in the heart.

John and Carolyn differ on the adaptation's value.

It's a small Mob story with  big dialogue.

A new and exciting way to experience an old story.

You'll not see a more sexual film this year.

John and Carolyn appreciate the drama and historicity of the film Lincoln.

The most imaginative film this year.

Cooper and Lawrence are the best couple in a romantic dramedy this year.

Silver Linings Playbook
Grade: A
Director: David O. Russell (The Fighter)
Screenplay: Russell from Matthew Quick novel
Cast: Bradley Cooper (Limitless), Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games)
Rating: R
Runtime:
by John DeSando

“I’m remaking myself,” Pat (Bradley Cooper)

John and Carolyn reveal the intricacies of Holy Motors.

The political process meets "Honest Abe."

A strangely interesting treatise on death and acting.

John and Carolyn go sky high in their praise of Skyfall.