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Stupid Like a Foxx
Run away from any theater showing Jamie Foxx's new movie "Breakin' All the Rules" and don't look back. Hurry now. I'm worried the level of laziness and desperation this movie embodies is contagious. More
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Smells Like Poop
When I got home and took my shoes off, I saw exactly what had been causing that horrible smell in the car. I'd stepped into a big, steaming pile of The Butterfly Effect. After using a stick to scrape the Kutcher out of the treads of my sneakers, I washed my hands very well with anti-bacterial soap; fecal to oral is the most effective way to get sick. More
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Inspired by real events, Calendar Girls is a humorous, uplifting film that entertains and inspires without becoming too sentimental for its own good. Helen Mirren and Julie Walters play longtime friends who are members of a staid women's club in a small English village. Tired of attending boring educational lectures, making jams, pressing flowers, and entering baking competitions, they yearn to do something original. After tragedy strikes close to home, they hatch a plan to raise money for the local hospital by creating a calendar of the group's middle-aged members performing their time-tested women's activities "Full Monty"-style. They enlis More
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Don't Go into the Woods
I don't want to mince my words here, so let me be clear: Camp is a very bad movie. It's billed as a comedy, but I can't seem to figure out on which level the comedy is supposed to work. Is the whole thing -- the whole premise - is the whole thing a farce? Maybe it is supposed to be a sort of Mystery Science Theater 3000 kind of funny? Or is it supposed to be a moving story which also happens to be funny? I ask these questions with the fear that Camp was designed to be that last one. I think writer/director Todd Graff meant to create a comedy that is at once funny, touching, and inspiring. According to my calculations, he has failed. More
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What director John Sayles does best is present to you very complicated ideas through inter-connected narratives without any easy explanations or neat and tidy endings. Life isn't neat and neither are his films. An all-star ensemble cast in which each and every single actor nails their role: Lili Taylor, Rita Moreno, Daryl Hannah, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marcia Gay Harden, Mary Steenburgen and Susan Lynch, brings the story to life. Six white women, only one of whom can actually speak Spanish, travel to an unidentified Latin country to adopt babies (as one of the locals quips, "One of our greatest exports"). Due to some bureaucratic scheme, they are More
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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce, the debut film, of Director Chi Muoi Lo (who also produced, wrote and acted in the film) is a quirky, emotional look at families and relationships. The intriguing title and the diverse cast of actors immediately indicate that you are about to watch a refreshingly non-typical movie. More
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There was a time when kids' movies, almost invariably by Disney, only appeared at the theater a few times a year. Well, things certainly have changed. In the last month, four different children's movies from four different major studios have had nationwide releases; Brother Bear, Looney Tunes, Elf and now The Cat in the Hat. Though often expensive to produce, these movies are also less risky because the child demographic is automatically targeted, and for every child that attends, there are the accompanying parents. Buoyed by the runaway success of films like Finding Nemo, studios are hurrying to capitalize on the huge dollar potential of thi More
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In a Word: Horrible
Believe it or not, the latest Halle Berry vehicle is terrible. More
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John Waters seems to be scooting into his role as one of the founding fathers of punk cinema with rosy-cheeked humor. Some say he sold out when Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble spawned Cry Baby and Serial Mom. I thought he lost his touch with Pecker -- I walked out of the theater totally annoyed by everything except the little sugar-addicted brat. And how any director could make Lili Taylor into a bad actress is beyond me. But everyone's allowed to screw up, right? And Cecil B. Demented proves, thankfully, that Pecker was just a fluke. More
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The independent movie aficionado in you rejects its Hollywood hype. The feminist in you rejects its blatant exploitation of legs and breasts. Yet the seventies teenager in you has been dreaming about this movie for years. That’s right: Charlie’s Angels are back in action. More
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