You probably don’t know the names Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. That’s because these writers-for-hire have penned some of the most barrel-scraping comedies of the past 12 years, the sort of movies you wouldn’t even watch on a 14-hour flight: The Martin Lawrence vehicle Rebound, the Yuletide stink-bomb Four Christmases, the bro-tastic romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, the … [Read more...]
‘Captain Fantastic’: Off the grid, defying expectations
To say that Captain Fantastic is one of the finest counterculture road movies since Easy Rider is both accurate and absurd. It’s absurd because instead of two bikers searching for meaning and literally burning out in the American heartland in the turbulent ’60s, Captain Fantastic is about a father traveling with his six children in a Winnebago in Obama’s America. … [Read more...]