RATING:
Reimagining A Christmas Carol as a rom-com about a caddish lothario (Matthew McConaughey) who, after visitations from the ghosts of girlfriends past, present, and future, sees the error of his womanizing ways and commits to his one true love (Jennifer Garner), may’ve seemed like an ingenious concept. After all, Dickens’ classic has seen countless [...]

Feeling a little blue that the Ravens weren’t the sexiest story of draft weekend?
No obscenely over-priced contracts, no glad-handing quarterbacks, no—okay, this one hurts a bit—stud wide receivers?
Instead, we selected an offensive tackle. A very, very good offensive tackle, mind you, but an offensive tackle nonetheless.
Well, guess what Ravens fans? We win!
Because I ask [...]

RATING:
As State of Play began, I had an unexpected surge of wistfulness. After all, this film is about an intrepid newspaper reporter (Russell Crowe) investigating the suspicious death of a pretty young Capitol Hill staffer. But in this world of blogs and Twitter, aren’t movies where the hero is a reporter about to go [...]

RATING:
In a way, Zac Efron is the perfect actor to play a 37-year-old man magically transplanted back into his 17-year-old body. He is a heartthrob to be sure, but he’s not at all hip. You can imagine him driving a minivan. When his character gives a passionate speech about abstinence or stares with paternal [...]

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Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus) is the tween girl’s answer to Batman. For those who don’t know, during the day she is normal high school kid Miley Stewart (also Cyrus), then at night she dons a blonde wig, changes into micro minis and Lycra, and becomes international pop sensation Hannah Montana! No one ever seems [...]

RATING:
Apparently, the shopping mall is this generation’s version of hell on earth. (I love the smell of Bath and Bodyworks in the morning?) How else to explain the fact that there have been two movies about mall cops within the span of two months? I mean, even if you believe that some sort of [...]

RATING:
More than 10 years ago, Greg Mottola made a near-perfect indie gem, The Daytrippers, about a woman who suspects her husband of cheating and embarks on a car ride from hell to Manhattan in a wood-paneled station wagon with her squabbling parents, her kid sister, and her kid sister’s pretentious boyfriend. It was funny, [...]

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Oh, how the trendy have fallen. Eight years ago, two rising star actors—the beef-cakey Vin Diesel and the surfer dudeish Paul Walker—made a hit film about fast cars and fast women called The Fast and the Furious. A sequel followed—2 Fast 2 Furious—but this time only Walker appeared; Diesel, apparently, had bigger fish to [...]