WHAT A GIRL WANTS is yet another reworking of the tried and true Cinderella formula. In this case tired and true might be more apt as this version has an American gal from New York breathing some life into stuffy old England. Would that screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Elizabeth Chandler had found a way to… Read More »
ANGER MANAGEMENT
With ANGER MANAGEMENT, Adam Sandler continues those first few tentative steps he took with Paul Thomas Anderson’s PUNCH DRUNK LOVE towards appealing to an audience over the age of eight and other than male. There it was a stab at dramatic respectability that worked beyond anyone’s expectations. Here he’s made the bold choice of moving… Read More »
CHASING PAPI
At the beginning of CHASING PAPI, we learn that Tomas, also known as Papi, was the most adorable baby ever born. He graduated into the most adorable little boy who ever lived, and thence to a manhood that makes women drop at his feet like so many horseflies on a hot day. In one of… Read More »
SCOOBY DOO
Let me put this in context for you. Libraries are woefully underfunded. Too many of the elderly are forced to choose between their prescription drugs and their rent. Teachers in the public school system are barely paid a subsistence wage. But somehow in a world turned upside down, there were tens of millions of dollars to be… Read More »
KILLER CONDOM (KONDOM DES GRAUENS)
Martin Walz’s KILLER CONDOM, based on the graphic novel by Ralf König, is a bizarre, touching, provocative, and funny piece of work. It’s the story of Luigi Mackeroni, a hard-boiled New York detective torn between his transvestite ex-partner and a street hustler with a heart of gold. If there is a hot-button issue that this… Read More »
DADDY DAY CARE
At one point in DADDY DAY CARE, a character competing for the pre-school business in a prosperous suburb says that she cant compete with fun. That could well be the theme of this movie. After a promising opening the flick quickly devolves into a formula piece whose only surprise is that Eddie Murphy, giving his… Read More »
DOWN WITH LOVE
DOWN WITH LOVE is a sweet little muddle buoyed along by its effervescence and its unflagging cheer. Its hard to dislike, no matter how much you want to, no matter how much you should. Like last years FAR FROM HEAVEN, though not in the same league, this is an homage to an earlier style of… Read More »
FINDING NEMO
After seeing FINDING NEMO, you just gotta ask yourself, is Pixar capable of making a bad film? Or even a mediocre one? Whether a serendipitous confluence of talent or a sign that there is some divine being at work in our world, either way, the answer, I think, must be no. There is a touch… Read More »
MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING
I love Cinderella stories and MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING qualifies for a couple of reasons. First of all, its the story of an ugly duckling, played by its writer Nia Vardalos, who morphs into the princess bride. Second, its a sweet little indie that beat the odds and an all-but non-existent advertising budget to… Read More »
HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE
You can just picture it. Someone comes up with this great idea to make a fun, hip flick about cops in Hollywood full of cameos by stars that ends with a chase down Hollywood Boulevard. And one day theyll make that film. In the meantime we have HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE, a film so bad that the… Read More »
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