Jake's Cinema Room

Summertime always seems to be the best time to showcase a coming of age story. That's the setting for the latest film trying to go the coming of age route and that film is Staten Island Summer. In the film we follow Danny (Graham Phillips) and Frank (Zack Pearlman), two best friends who are working as lifeguards during the summer after graduating high school. Both guys are unsure of what they want to do now that they are out of high school but they know for sure that they want to have a great summer. Summer consists of them getting into all kinds of shenanigans with some of their fellow co-workers and it all leads up to one last blow out party to end the summer on the right note. This was a surprising little film. It was completely off my radar until I was able to catch it on Netflix and I must say that it was well worth the watch. While the film does hit many of the same beats other films like it hit and it is really cliche in a lot of parts, it was able to win me over with wi...

Another year goes by and here we have another big budget Adam Sandler comedy. Every time I review a Sandler film I always say the same thing, the guy is talented but he continues to make films that are so low brow with their humor that they just aren't funny. He consistently does this because he knows those types of films are what's going to make him more money. With this latest film, Pixels, the trailer actually had me pretty interested. I though hey maybe this could finally be a decent film with Sandler that will be a step above all his other bad comedies he's put out over the last 10 years. The end result has me kind of split because the film really isn't that good but it's not as bad as everyone else has made it out to be, The basic premise here is that we follow Sandler as Sam Brenner, who as a kid was one of the best arcade game players in the country but now he works for a Geek Squad type company because he lost an arcade game championship when he was you...