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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Inside the Bucket Podcast #23

This week's episode of Inside the Bucket is online! Revel in the digital mastery! It's the John and Matt show this week, as our other contirbutors are either too busy to attend or don't care about us anymore.  Nevertheless, the show must go on!  This week's edition of  Inside the Bucket  is filled with news and reviews, as the boys gear up for Comic-Con 2014!  The boys tackle a huge news segment, the links for which can be found on our site  SANDWICHJOHNFILMS.COM . Later, they prattle on during Rants & Raves, before welcoming special guest Erin Lim from the Bitch Talk Podcast as she talks about her Kickstarter project The Nomadic Family Project . Please support her worthwhile Kickstarter by contributing any amount you can afford. After a discussion of the weekend's box office winners/losers, they review  SEX TAPE , starring Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz, and Rob Corddry.  Please check out all the links to the stories we cove...

Wish I Was Here Review: Touching Kickstarter Fails to Break New Ground

Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here is nothing but typical thirty-something Kickstarter dramedy. In the world of Hollywood, it seems that certain genres fall all too easily into something equal to a time loop, their stories rehashed for a new group of unsuspecting moviegoers until they realize only later that their newest love is really a distributive of something much better. Such is the case with Zach Braff's dramedy Wish I Was Here , a film with potential but condemned to all the tropes of its much better predecessors. Struggling actor Aidan Bloom (Zach Braff) is tired: unable to land a role after starring as the 'Before' guy on a dandruff commercial, he's unsure of himself and the direction his career is headed. His wife Sarah (Kate Hudson) is in a similar rut, imputing data at her boring job with the water service, while Aidan's father Gabe (Mandy Patinkin) has been paying the tuition to keep his granchildren (Joey King and Pierce Gagnon) enrolled at ...