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Cortland Jacoby

Earth, Washington, D.C.

Film Critic at Punch Drunk Critics

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  • 1 week ago | punchdrunkcritics.com | Cortland Jacoby

    Bride Hard wants to be a Paul Feig movie so bad. Known for his female-led comedies in the late 2000s and 2010s, Feig is known for his acute ability to combine humor, pathos, and action to move the story along in memorable and hilarious ways. The essence of his best, such as The Heat, Spy, and of course Bridesmaids, make up the DNA of Bride Hard without any of the tact and care that those films are known for.

  • 1 week ago | punchdrunkcritics.com | Cortland Jacoby

    Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells worked together for years on the Netflix hit cartoon Big Mouth. If you believed the show, known for descriptive and creative depictions of sex, lacked a bloody slasher element, their latest film may be for you. I Don’t Understand You is a violent, dark comedy that keeps you guessing on which twisted direction writers and directors David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano will go next.

  • 1 month ago | punchdrunkcritics.com | Cortland Jacoby

    Jane Austen fans have long joked that the infamous British author has ruined men for them. Most males lack the wit and romantic tendencies of Mr. Darcy, Mr. Wentworth, or Colonel Brandon. This concept is loosely explored in Laura Piani’s French and English production Jane Austen Wrecked My Life.

  • 1 month ago | awfj.org | Cortland Jacoby

    0 Flares 0 Flares × With online gambling normalized across North America now, it was only a matter of time before its effects on family dynamics were explored in cinematic melodrama. Filmmaker Gillian McKercher uses her second feature to explore what is really lost when you give up the poker table and what you risk going back to it. Longtime character actor Terry Chen sets the tone as Lucky Lee, a family man and recovering gambler.

  • 1 month ago | awfj.org | Cortland Jacoby

    0 Flares 0 Flares × Misfits. Assemble. After multiple movies and projects where they were supporting characters, Marvel has finally brought its most dysfunctional antiheroes together in Thunderbolts*. They’re here to kick butt and take names – or at least try to.

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