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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rating: 1.5 stars
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...
Rating: 2.5 stars
In the 3-D animated sci-fi flick Monster vs. Aliens, blushing bride Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) gets zapped by an alien meteorite and becomes 50-feet tall, much to the...
Rating: 3 stars
Sunshine Cleaning—about a couple of down-on-their-luck sisters (Amy Adams and Emily Blunt) who start a crime scene clean-up business—suffers from a bit of whimsy overload. It’s one...
Rating: 2 stars
The key to watching Knowing is to simply enjoy the ride. Because if you start to connect the dots—and they’re all there, laid out pretty obviously—you begin to realize that something...
