A Thousand Words

Spring time is the prime season for movie releases and the one that WadidoLA is most excited about is A Thousand Words.  Starring Eddie Murphy, Cliff Curtis, and Kerry Washington, among others, it's bound to be a hit.  Eddie Murphy plays an obnoxiously smooth talker that is thrown for a loop when a tree sprouts in his back yard that has 1,000 leaves that represent the 1,000 words he has left to speak.  What happens if he goes over?  He dies.  Watch him squirm as he attempts to live with this new limitation and change his entire attitude and lifestyle.  The release date is March 9th, only four days away, so mark your calendar! 

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Out now: Real Steel

The Help

The Help is one of those rare stories that is uplifting, humorous, thought-provoking, and sobering all at the same time. The Help began as a novel by Kathryn Stockett, and her first novel at that. The Help is a story about Jackson, Mississippi, in the 1960's, and the relationship between black maids and the white women who employed them. The beautifully written novel touches upon the serious racial tension and racism of the time, and follows a young woman who dreams of being a journalist, as she records the stories, good, bad, and awful, of dozens of maids around town. The outcome of the book she publishes full of these stories, is, to say the least, controversial.

Movie Review: Horrible Bosses

Horrible Bosses was being projected as one of the hit movies of the summer. Released on July 8th, 2011, it grosses $28.1 million over it's opening weekend, which is behind Bad Teacher but ahead of Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Directed by Seth Gordon, this film is a dark comedy with a star-studded cast, including Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, and Jason Sudeikis. With Anison, Farrell, and Spacey acting as horrible bosses that bring the heat in their own ways, whether it's sexual harassment, cocaine-induced craziness, or back-stabbing, money-making plots, they're all impossible to work for. That's why three friends, with the help of Foxx, plot to kill each other's bosses. They make blunder after blunder while they're trying to do so, which serves as the main plot-line for the movie, and in the end, although the bosses aren't necessarily dead, they all end up with much better working situations.

Since WadidoLA is always in the know, we've seen and reviewed Horrible Bosses for you. Horrible Bosses' outrageous plot begs for it to be compared to movies like The Hangover, Super Bad, and Bridesmaids, but sadly, it doesn't measure up. Sure, there are jokes and scenes that will make you grin, maybe even chuckle out loud, but the story progression is predictable and the ending anti-climactic. While it's worth seeing for a few cheap laughs, each actor/actress seems to have had better performances, especially Jennifer Aniston and Jamie Foxx. Farrell was really the only piece of the movie that was genuinely funny, and it was disappointing that he appeared so infrequently. WadidoLA gives Horrible Bosses a luke-warm review, but in the end, it's up to you to decide for yourself! After you see it, give us your thoughts in the comment box!