The “Lawrence of Arabia” of half-assed Adam Sandler comedies, “Sandy Wexler” is an epic period piece that spans 10 years and 131 minutes of mildly amusing mediocrity before climaxing with a Rob Schneider cameo where he plays a Middle Eastern man in full brownface — it’s awful, and yet it’s almost objectively Sandler’s best movie since “Funny People.”
Of course, quality has never been a very useful metric for measuring Sandler’s work, and that’s especially true now that we’re knee-deep in an eight-picture Netflix deal which guarantees that, for the foreseeable future, we can expect new Sandler films to arrive with all the predictably of seasonal allergies. Once upon a time, he was a cottage industry — now, he’s an assembly line.
But if “Sandy Wexler” is only the slightest bit funnier than “The Do-Over” or “The Ridiculous Six,” the third of Sandler’s streaming offerings is...
Of course, quality has never been a very useful metric for measuring Sandler’s work, and that’s especially true now that we’re knee-deep in an eight-picture Netflix deal which guarantees that, for the foreseeable future, we can expect new Sandler films to arrive with all the predictably of seasonal allergies. Once upon a time, he was a cottage industry — now, he’s an assembly line.
But if “Sandy Wexler” is only the slightest bit funnier than “The Do-Over” or “The Ridiculous Six,” the third of Sandler’s streaming offerings is...
- 4/14/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The A-listers came out Monday night for the 17th Annual Hollywood Film Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Sandra Bullock was presented the Hollywood Actress Award for her work in "Gravity" by Oscar winner and "A Time to Kill" co-star Octavia Spencer. Sandy was looking sexy (again!) for the ceremony, stunning in a hot Lbd. Jake Gyllenhaal showed off his newly-gaunt physique, accepting the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award for his work in "Prisoners." The 32-year-old actor's body transformation is for his new role in "Nightcrawler," which is shooting in Los Angeles right now. Julia Roberts, Matthew McConaughey, Harrison Ford and Jared Leto were also honored at the ceremony. And some of their famous friends – Robert Downey Jr., Sean Penn, Jane Fonda – helped present their awards. Kanye West presented Steve McQueen with the Hollywood Breakout Director Award for "12 Years a Slave" -- before high-tailing it to San Francisco to propose to Kim Kardashian!
- 10/22/2013
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Kevin O'Connor of PBS' "This Old House" and "Ask This Old House" -- the venerable Diy show's Q&A spin-off -- savors the view from the roof deck of "Toh's" current project house, in Cambridge, Mass.
"It's kind of a dense downtown neighborhood," he tells Zap2it, "so I'm seeing a lot of rooftops, but the city looks pretty good."
In the "Ask This Old House" episode airing on Friday, Nov. 9 (check local listings; the show airs weekends in some markets), O'Connor and his team head to an even denser neighborhood, New York City's Times Square, to visit with a celebrity pal.
The host of NBC's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" is a longtime "Toh" and "Atoh" fan, having outed himself on Twitter a couple of years ago. The "Atoh" crew -- O'Connor, general contractor Tom Silva, landscape contractor Roger Cook and plumbing-and-heating expert Richard Trethewey -- has made a...
"It's kind of a dense downtown neighborhood," he tells Zap2it, "so I'm seeing a lot of rooftops, but the city looks pretty good."
In the "Ask This Old House" episode airing on Friday, Nov. 9 (check local listings; the show airs weekends in some markets), O'Connor and his team head to an even denser neighborhood, New York City's Times Square, to visit with a celebrity pal.
The host of NBC's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" is a longtime "Toh" and "Atoh" fan, having outed himself on Twitter a couple of years ago. The "Atoh" crew -- O'Connor, general contractor Tom Silva, landscape contractor Roger Cook and plumbing-and-heating expert Richard Trethewey -- has made a...
- 11/9/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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