“Friends with Benefits” Game, Set, and Match
Official Website “Game, Set, and Match” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Friends with Benefits is a romantic comedy that tries to be an unromantic comedy just because of the title. The title, of course,...
View Article“The Guard” Funny, but Difficult
Official Website “Funny, but Difficult” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Guard is one of the funniest movies you will see all year, but it is also one of the most difficult to understand, too, because...
View Article“The Descendants” Is Complicated, Confusing, and Funny
“Complicated, Confusing, and Funny” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Descendants is the latest movie starring George Clooney, but more importantly it is also the latest movie written and directed by...
View Article“The Artist” Sounds Familiar, but It’s Silent
“Sounds Familiar” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Artist is one of those films that Hollywood loves to make, because it has a simple story that has been retold many times before, it wins many awards...
View ArticleI never actually met David Letterman, but …
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View Article“This Means War” Has Four Ridiculous Endings
“Four Ridiculous Endings” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! This Means War starts off with an excessive beginning like a typical James Bond movie and then quickly turns into a romantic comedy with two...
View Article“The Three Stooges” Is Soitainly an Embarrassment
“Soitainly an Embarrassment” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Three Stoges: The Movie is how the publicist wants references to be made about this movie, which is so bad, it is lucky to have any...
View Article“Think Like a Man” Is Funny, but Predictable
“Funny, but Predictable” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Think Like a Man has so many characters in it that at first it is difficult to tell who is who and who is dating whom, and then by the time you...
View Article“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” All Right in the End
“Everything All Right in the End” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is about a hotel in India of that name, but ending in even more words of “For the Elderly &...
View Article“The Watch” Don’t Bother
“The Watch” Don’t Bother “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Watch is a comedy that combines the subjects of a neighborhood watch group; a compulsive, obsessive, paranoid leader; and an alien invasion...
View Article“Hit & Run” Has Gags That Just Keep On Coming
“Gags Just Keep On Coming” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Hit & Run is a comedy that is basically just one funny car chase after another, but it doesn’t get old, because each one keeps adding a new...
View ArticleFlagler College welcomes writer and humorist Michael Martone
Michael Martone is a busy man. The two-time NEA fellowship recipient and University of Alabama professor is one of the most widely-published fiction writers and essayists of the last two decades, with...
View Article“The Intouchables” Is a Refreshing Comedy
“Refreshing Comedy” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Intouchables is a French comedy with an unlikely subject: a wealthy man who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair hires a young black man...
View Article“Argo” Is Funny and Serious
Hotshots, October 17, 2012 “Funny and Serious” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Argo is an excellent film based on a true story you might never have heard about concerning the 1979 takeover of the U.S....
View Article“Seven Psychopaths” Is Gruesome Twisted Fun
“Gruesome Twisted Fun” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Seven Psychopaths is a very funny, very bloody, and very violent comedy that keeps you laughing, but you almost feel guilty about doing so. It...
View Article“This Is 40″ Can Just Be Skipped
“Can Just Be Skipped” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! This Is 40 is written and directed by Judd Apatow, and some are calling it a sequel to his 2007 Knocked Up, but it is only an elaboration of two of...
View Article“Quartet” More Than Just the “Big Game” Gala
“More Than Just ‘The Big Game’ Gala” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Quartet is another in a string of recent movies about colorful, quirky oldtimers, the first film directed by actor Dustin Hoffman, and...
View Article“The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” So Credible, It’s a Cliche
“So Credible, It’s a Cliche” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Incredible Burt Wonderstone may appear to be fresh and original, but if you examine it closely, you will realize that you have already...
View Article“The Iceman” about a Cold-Hearted Killer
“Cold-Hearted Killer” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Iceman is based on a true story about a man named Richard Kuklinski who worked for many years as a hit man for organized crime on the East Coast....
View Article“The Hangover Part III” Third in a Successful, Redundant Series
“Successful, Redundant Series” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Hangover Part III is not as good as the first movie in the trilogy, but much better than the second one, which was just a remake of the...
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