Jake Peffer Watches

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...

It's been 14 years now since Joe Dirt came out back in 2001. The film has garnered a small cult following despite the fact that it's not the greatest comedy to ever come out. I'll be the first to admit that while I don't find the film to be particularly good there are some parts that do make me laugh and it's something I can throw on everyone once in a while. Now here we are in 2015 and for whatever reason we're getting a sequel that I'm pretty sure nobody asked for. We can thank the streaming site Crackle for this sequel, who got the exclusive rights to show this instead of it going to theaters or straight to DVD. That should give you some perspective on how good this could possibly be. When we last left Joe (David Spade) he had gotten back with his girlfriend Brandy (Brittany Daniel) and everything was going well for him. We watch as Joe and Brandy get married, go on to have three daughters and have a fairly nice life together. That is until a terrible...

Kevin James is back as Paul Blart in the sequel that nobody asked for. I'll be the first to admit that I didn't mind the first film. Sure it wasn't great but I didn't flat out hate it either. Also despite his very lackluster film career so far I do like Kevin James and think he can be funny given the right material, just look at Hitch and his years on The King of Queens. Since the first film was a surprising box office success it was inevitable that a sequel would probably follow, it's just a shame that nobody thought about even trying when it came to making a second film. This time around we pick up where the last film left off. We see Paul marry his love interest Amy (Jayma Mays) only for her to leave him just six days later. This depresses Paul but he continues on keeping his mall safe. His daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez) is tired of seeing her dad so depressed and talks him into taking a much needed vacation. She recently got an acceptance letter to college ...

Channing Tatum and the boys are back for a second go around in  Magic Mike XXL . It’s been three years since we last saw Mike (Channing Tatum) who has since left the stripping world and is hard at work running his own custom furniture business. One day he gets a call from one of his old buddies who gets him to meet up with the old crew who are planning on going up to Myrtle Beach for a stripper convention to put on one last spectacular performance. Along the way they team up with some old friends of Mike’s led by Rome (Jada Pinkett-Smith) who help them out in putting together their final performance. When the first  Magic Mike  came out in 2012 it was quite a surprise for me. Not because it was actually good but because of how good it ended up being. It was surprising to see that it was more a character study about a guy trying to get out of a life he was unhappy with and do something he was more passionate about. This time around we get less of a character study and ...

In high school trying to fit in is one of the hardest things to do. Being friends with two of the most popular and attractive girls should help your popularity. At least that's what someone would think until they find out they may only being your friends because you make them look better. That's the situation we find Bianca (Mae Whitman) in when she finds out that she is her friends DUFF, designated ugly fat friend. Bianca and her friends Casey (Bianca A. Santos) and Jess (Skyler Samuels) have been best friends for years and Bianca has never noticed how much more attention everyone gives Casey and Jess over her until she's told at a party by her neighbor Wes (Robbie Amell). With this new information Bianca questions her friendship with Casey and Jess and with the help of Wes tries to do everything in her power to get away from the title of the DUFF. On the surface The DUFF seems like a fairly generic teen comedy with not much going for it. And while it does have some mo...

Just a few years ago we were introduced to the first Pitch Perfect . From the trailers it looked like it could be the movie version of Glee , which could be a good or bad thing, or it could just be an absolute train wreck. Surprisingly enough the film turned out to be extremely funny and went on to become a huge hit with critics and audiences. After so much success it was inevitable there would probably be a sequel which, when it comes to comedies, isn't always a good thing. Sure every once in a while you a get something like 22 Jump Street that ends up being better than the first film but that is a rare occurrence. However, Pitch Perfect 2 might just be in that same category. This time around we continue to follow the Barden Bellas as they have become quite popular since the end of the last film. So popular in fact that they get to perform in front of the President and his wife. Unfortunately for them something goes haywire that causes Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) to flash everyon...