Features
Wednesday, May 5 2010
2010 Summer Movie Preview - July
In July, Christopher Nolan unleashes his eagerly awaited new film Inception, M. Night Shyamalan returns with The Last Airbender and Adrien Brody stars in a Predator remake.
Reviews
Friday, March 9 2012
'Game Change': TV Eats Itself
This is the story Game Change tells, the story of the news cycle. Sarah Palin is the occasion for this story, but she's mostly incidental.
Thursday, January 13 2011
'Dinner for Schmucks': A Film for Schmucks?
With its message never defined, Dinner for Schmucks leaves you wondering whether the real idiots were in front of the camera, behind it, or laughing complacently at home.
Friday, July 30 2010
'Dinner for Schmucks': Mice and Men
Dinner for Schmucks is like an inescapable get-together dominated by humorless palaver and juvenile games, and damn, it's hard to watch Steve Carell and Paul Rudd squirm through it.
Wednesday, December 22 2004
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Streisand brings her own potent barrage to this company of self-interested men, not to mention the melt-away women.
Thursday, July 25 2002
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
The so-called postmodern self-references of the previous Austin Powers films here become epidemic, though more is not exactly better. It's just more. And it is repetitive.
Blogs
Friday, July 30 2010
A Dinner Game for Idiots, Schmucks, and Hollywood Remakes
The premise promises things that the French just aren't ready to address. While not always successful in doing so, at least the US remake takes chances.
