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Writer/director Laurent Firode’s 2000 film Happenstance (Le Battement d’ailes du papillon) is a fabulous French-language romantic comedy starring Audrey Tautou, one of my favorite actresses, as Irene, the leading character. It is a romantic comedy that uses its simplicity to showcase the elements of Chaos Theory or the Butterfly Effect, where one action leads [...]

The Incredibles was an amazing family-friendly action-adventure comedy that still managed to stuff in some adventure and action here and there.  It can truly be something that entertains the entire family and not something that is simply child-friendly and adult-tolerable. Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Incredibles, 2004", url: "http://fauxnixon.com/the-incredibles-2004/" });

Elf is a wholesome holiday comedy that tells us the story of a human raised by elves at the North Pole.   Buddy, skillfully played by Will Ferrell, is mistakenly brought back to the workshop after crawling into Santa’s toy bag.  He is adopted by Papa Elf (Bob Newhart) and raised like an elf until he [...]

1. 21 Directed by Robert Luketic who is famed for a variety of recently released terrible comedies, 21 is based on the true story of a group of MIT students who formed a group that, via mathematics and advanced card counting methods, was able to successfully beat the odds at blackjack in casinos and in doing [...]

Along Came Polly is the most recent film in Hollywood’s long tradition of cookie-cutter plots.  Reuben Feffer, portrayed by Ben Stiller in a rather mediocre performance, lives a comfortable, if cautious life where his professional efforts are so focused on the prevention of any type of risky behavior that he lives a very quiet and [...]

The third and final installment of Baz Luhrmann’s “Red Curtain” trilogy is the first musical in recent memory to capture public notice. Moulin Rouge is the story of a young writer named Christian (Ewan McGregor) trying to get a break in 1899 Paris. The focus of the Bohemian community in which he resides, is a [...]

1999’s Lake Placid was an unusual movie from its beginnings.  It’s a star-studded black comedy about a giant crocodile terrorizing a small lake community in Maine featuring a flamboyant, wealthy professor with a passion for crocodiles in Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt), a common-sense, polite and gentlemanly local sheriff named Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson), Jack Wells [...]

1.  Definitely, Maybe Written and directed by Adam Brooks whose previous work is predominantly writing and includes such titles as Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Wimbledon, this movie stars Ryan Reynolds, An Nguyen, Sakina Jaffrey, and Dana Eskelson in a romantic comedy about a political consultant living in Manhattan in the midst of a [...]