Scream is timeless. It was a perfect satire of a genre that lost any spark of originality decades before. Scary Movie doesn’t seem to understand that. By parodying specific horror movies, Scary Movie is now hopelessly dated, and the pop culture references now terribly unfunny (as opposed to just unfunny when the movie was released). [...]

Observe and Report is an odd, bizarre movie. What initially seems like an R-rated version of Paul Blart becomes dark, hard to watch, and terribly unfunny. Seth Rogen is Ronnie, the head of mall security with (as we learn later) bi-polar disorder. He flies off the handle randomly, and it is hard to tell whether [...]