It should be easy to hate Imagine That. As a kids movie, it concerns the trials of an investment banker looking to move up in his firm, played by Eddie Murphy. Scenes of Murphy dabbling away at his computer, crunching numbers, and presenting ideas to clients are impossibly boring for a small child, let alone [...]

Meet Dave stars Eddie Murphy as an alien and an alien spaceship, both of whom have come to Earth to take our salt for no other reason than their home planet needs it. While Murphy is capable of wonderful displays of energy and charisma, what he’s given here is a bafflingly stupid, contrived film that [...]

Director John Landis may have taken a slow dive in terms of his movie quality recently, but almost everything he helmed in the 1980s was golden. Starting with The Blues Brothers in 1980, nearly all of these were hits, ending with Coming to America in 1988. While not a brilliant comedy, nor one of the [...]

There’s not much like a John Landis late ’70s or ’80s comedy. Animal House, Blues Brothers, Coming to America, and of course Trading Places all fall into that category. The latter is fondly remembered for many a reason, though it doesn’t comes off perfectly. This is still one of the better comedies of the era. [...]