Rating: 2.5 stars
There’s a certain contract that the creators of a stoner comedy make with the audience: There will be lots of doobie jokes, lots of infantile men over-reacting (and sometimes,...
Rating: 1.5 stars
A few questions will perplex you as you watch The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Here, I will attempt to answer them.
Q: Where is Rachel Weisz?
A. She got her Oscar and got the...
Rating: 1.5 stars
Anyone who knows me, already knows that I am no fan of Kevin Costner. I find his whole self-styled Everyman routine tiresome and pretentious. He’s had some great movies over the...
Rating: 3 stars
There is a great scene in The Wackness, a coming-of-age film about a teen pot dealer in New York named Luke (Josh Peck) who sells drugs to his depressed shrink Dr. Squires (Ben...
Rating: 3 stars
Judd Apatow loves to make movies about grown men who are secretly arrested adolescents. In Step Brothers, which is produced by Apatow and reunites Talladega Nights co-stars Will...
Rating: 2 stars
This is going to hurt you more than it hurts me: The new X-Files movie kind of stinks.
I was never a big fan of the show (I mean, I wasn’t a detractor or anything, I just never got...
Rating: 3.5 stars
Halfway through The Dark Knight, I realized that it reminded me of another film I had seen in the past year.
The Incredible Hulk?
Iron Man?
Hellboy II?
Try No Country For Old Men....
Rating: 2.5 stars
So you want the good news or the bad news? Okay, the good news: Mamma Mia! is a sun-kissed, spirited camp romp, with lots of fun moments and some inspired bits of musical comedy....
Rating: 3 stars
My friends were all pretty stunned when I told them I was looking forward to Hellboy II: The Golden Army—I’m not usually a Hellboy kinda gal. But what many people don’t realize is...
Rating: 2.5 stars
There was much breathless buzz about Journey to the Center of the Earth being the bestest 3-D movie ever! Indeed, the 3-D effects are pretty eye-popping: Yo-yos spring off the...