A 40-year-old wordsmith enters a national spelling bee by exploiting a loophole in its rules in Bad Words. Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman), an editor with savant-like memory, decides to enroll in the latest Golden Quill spelling bee. Of course, it’s a contest meant for eighth graders, and Guy’s nearly three decades older than the other […]

This weekend found me catching yet another in our continuing series of “Judd Apatow-like” movies. The most current installment is The Hangover. The movie stars Bradley Cooper (the jerk fiancé in Wedding Crashers), Ed Helms (of The Daily Show and The Office fame) and Zach Galifianakis (er, okay, I don’t know Zach). The Hangover is […]