‘Neighbors’ starts summer comedy season with modest collection of chuckles (Movie review)

“Neighbors” modestly kicks off the summer comedy season with a lot of smiles and chuckles but not many belly laughs. Perhaps a reflection of the mainstreaming of the gross-out comedy genre in the last 15 years, it delivers humor centered around drugs, sex and vulgarity that won’t be surprising to anyone who has watched a blockbuster

Jason Segel shows us the Muppets have aged well (Movie review)

After a batch of truly terrible previews for Disney-Pixar movies (not only did the movies look bad, the trailers themselves were interminable), my screening of “The Muppets” (a franchise that Disney now owns) finally began — and, mostly, it was worth the wait. Although the Muppety messages about self-confidence and following your dreams don’t do much for