“Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” is the first film to bear the “Jackass” name that doesn’t open with a disclaimer. It’s perhaps a sign of the gang’s aging, particularly on the part of frontman Johnny Knoxville, that their new film is light on potentially deadly stunts. Knoxville and Co. (actually, minus much of the Co., though […]
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“The Last Stand” isn’t an action movie, a comedy, a crime thriller, or a Western. It’s an Arnold, the smallest genre in cinema. Arnold Schwarzenegger is arguably the only post-silent era actor whose participation mandates that a film be thought of as something other than what it ostensibly is. He’s singular, having such an effect
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One barely expects to find jokes referencing taboo topics like pedophilia, threesomes, and the use of Nair as an ass-grooming agent in an R-rated, John Hughes-inspired teen comedy, so the fact that they’ve turned up in a PG-13 version produced by Nickelodeon is shocking. And these gags are only the tip of the iceberg for
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