The actress Tiffany Haddish is probably as in demand and in more movies than any actress who has become suddenly famous in many years. She seems to be in just about every movie and every talk show and because of this she is risking overexposure – the kiss of death for anyone in fickle show business. Haddish’s road to fame and fortune could not have come harder and unlikely as she frequently talks about her time being homeless, even mentioning living in her car – a small GEO Metro, which was a cheap car popular in the 90’s. While plugging “Nobody’s Fool”, another Tyler Perry movie on talk shows, Haddish has also brought up the fact that Tyler Perry was also homeless and also lived in a Geo Metro. Tyler Perry’s turnaround story is one of the greatest rags to riches show business stories of all time. Perry should do a movie about his life coming from despair and homelessness to being the owner of a movie studio in Atlanta and being worth about 600 million dollars.

A documentary or movie about Perry’s life would have been a far better project than Nobody’s Fool because like many of Tyler Perry’s movies, they seem to be mass produced with no original idea. This movie has an plot-line that involves the TV show Catfish and attempts a twist at the end that mostly does not work and does not make much sense. The screenplay of this movie seems like it was on a shelf for a while and the idea came to use Tiffany Haddish and some of her off the cuff mostly raunchy humor to save this story and for the most part, this does not work.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this movie is a very low 21% with IMDB a low 4.6 – which is very low for IMDB ratings. This movie could have been fixed by relying more on screenplay re-writes and a better story rather than thinking that Tiffany Haddish could just save the entire movie because of her raunchy on the fly humor. For these reasons, I do not recommend Nobody’s Fool.

One could easily say about the new movie “Overlord” that it has to be the most unusual World War 2 movie ever made. As the movie starts there is a scene that many World War 2 movies have started. A group of young men are about to parachute out of a huge plane behind German Lines at the start of the Normandy Invasion in June 1944. This scene will remind many people of the starting scene of Saving Private Ryan where a group of young men are on a boat about to be storm the beaches of Normandy where many of them will die before they even reach the beach. The harsh reality of war is very well done in this opening scene with anti-aircraft explosions and the inevitable explosions all around the soldiers. Once landed a group of young men are assigned to blow up a German tower to help the land invasion and this is where the movie ceases to be a run of the mill war movie and become a movie about German experimenting on dead people and eventually zombies.

The special effects for this movie are very good, as are the action scenes involving combat. For this who think that harsh realities war should be respected in all war movies this movie is not for you – because zombies in World War 2 is far fetched and considering the science rather ridiculous.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this movie are a very high 81%, I would be more in the 65-70% range and I give this movie only a marginal recommendation.

The new movie “The Girl in the Spider’s Web” is a sequel to the much better “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, released in December 2011. Some of the things that were good about the first movie, including the computer hacking and coding are evident in this sequel, but not nearly enough. Also the main character, this time played by Clare Foy is not tattooed or pierced enough to make her outrageous as to be considered similar to the original character played by Rooney Mara. The story for this new movie is all over the place, too long and in too many places hard to follow. One wonders who the main character Lisbeth Salander, works for, or why she is involved in trying to stop so many bad people. This movie lacks basic story telling and tries to make up for that with explosions and some special effects, which will never be the solution to a bad screenplay.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this movie is a pretty low 46% and IMDB has a rating of only 5.4. I agree with both of these ratings and I do not recommend The Girl in the Spider’s Web.