(Blu) Haiku Review: Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)

Starring: Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Don Johnson, Stephen Dorff & Kevin Nealon
Written by Adam Sandler & Allen Covert & Nick Swardson
Directed by Tom Brady

A small-town loser discovers that his parents were adult film stars and decides to move to California to follow in their footsteps.


Ummm, I’m pretty sure
someone forgot to write jokes
for this limp premise.

Grade: D-


c2012
By Daniel J. Hoag
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is available on Blu-ray and DVD on 1/17/12.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411664/

Haiku Review: My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Starring: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Emma Watson & Judi Dench
Written by Adrian Hodges
Directed by Simon Curtis

Based on the memoir of a young film industry lackey who spent a week befriending a troubled Marilyn Monroe while she was in England to make a movie with Sir Laurence Olivier.


Come for Williams, who
explodes as the blonde bombshell,
seductive yet frail.

Grade: B-


c2011
By Daniel J. Hoag
My Week with Marilyn is now playing in select cities.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655420/