Thursday Movie Picks: It's a Party

It's a Thursday. It's in December. Obviously, Wanderer at Wandering Through the Shelves is in a festive mood. That's why this week's topic is "It's a Party!" Hmmm...let's try to find some parties that aren't overly crowded.


Is it about a Christmas party? No. Is there a Christmas party? Yes. And the titular psycho (Christian Bale) is indeed in attendance. He doesn't look like he wants to be there, but he is...just itching to kill someone.


The third Friday movie finds Craig (Ice Cube) and Day Day (Mike Epps) trying to recoup money stolen from them by Santa Claus, or at least someone dressed like him. Lots of wackiness ensues with many of the film's big moments occurring during a rent/Christmas party.


This underrated comedy is loads of fun and focuses on the rather insecure, but very successful Chris (Ryan Reynolds) being reunited with his best friend from high school, Jamie (Amy Smart), who he also happened to have a tremendous crush on. Of course, things don't go as planned. However, they do attend a Christmas party, so things can't be all bad, right?



Alright, so I missed last week. Or, did I? Yeah, I did, but I'm going to make up for it right now. The topic was Meet the Parents. As tempted as I am to just pick all the movies in the Ben Stiller's same-named trilogy, I won't. I went a different route.



Yeah, I know, this is one of those buddy cop/action-comedy thingies. Guess what my favorite scenes is, though. It's when the daughter of Martin Lawrence's character get picked up for a date by a very nervous boy who is meeting him, and his wife (Theresa Randle), and his partner (Will Smith) for the first time.


Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) is a black man going off for the weekend to meet the parents of his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams). He's worried about how they'll treat him because she's never had a black boyfriend before. To say his suspicions are well-founded is merely scratching the surface.