Friday, March 25 2005

D.E.B.S. (2005)

By Todd R. Ramlow

D.E.B.S. challenges us to rethink our straight-up relationship to the genres it parodies.

Friday, February 4 2005

The Wedding Date (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

More unnerving, he treats her to a front-and-center look at his penis, fresh out of the shower.

Monday, November 17 2003

Home Room (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

'School's no place for kids anymore.'"

Monday, October 6 2003

Two and a Half Men

By Cary O'Dell

Was anyone clamoring for a new Charlie Sheen sitcom?

Friday, August 9 2002

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Juni and Carmen's perspective, part convincingly ingenuous and part movie-kid calculated, organizes the film's general view of things.

Sunday, January 1 1995

Two and a Half Men

By Michael Abernethy

Charlie, Alan, and their friends and family may be like hamsters, but it's great fun to look inside their box and watch them squirm.

Legally Blonde (2001)

By Cynthia Fuchs

If you pay money to see it, 'Legally Blonde' presumes, you get the joke: all this foofiness is really just a way to sugar-coat Elle's steely resolve, admirable ingenuity, and fabulous moral fiber, and -- more importantly -- to indict the entrenched gender/class/race systems that put her in her place (on top, sort of).

Happy Accidents (2000)

By Gordon Geise

'Happy Accidents' is either a sci-fi love story, or a love story in which one of the lovers is crazy.