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Home Is Where the Hum-Drum Is in "Roscoe Jenkins"
(Friday, February 08, 2008)
Christian Hamaker
How so many talented actors ended up in Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is a mystery. Many of the...
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Good Taste Is an Endangered Species in Strange Wilderness
(Monday, February 04, 2008)
Christa Banister
With bottom-of-the-barrel laughs aimed squarely at the same adolescent males who liked Superbad,...
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Look Away from “The Eye”
(Monday, February 04, 2008)
Christian Hamaker
The Eye, a remake of a film directed by Danny and Oxide Pang, makes the brothers 0 for 2 in American...
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Don’t Even Bother with Over Her Dead Body
(Friday, February 01, 2008)
Lisa Rice
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, women will be searching for chick-flicks on the marquis....
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"Rambo" - A Bad Flashback to '80s Excess
(Monday, January 28, 2008)
Christian Hamaker
The new film Rambo, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, presents an interesting case...
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Untraceable Is Thrilling but Pointlessly Gruesome
(Friday, January 25, 2008)
Christian Hamaker
Untraceable is one of the first technology thrillers to generate actual thrills. Too bad that...
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Woody’s Worth Increases with "Cassandra’s Dream"
(Tuesday, January 22, 2008)
Christian Hamaker
London has been good to Woody Allen. Cassandra’s Dream, the third film in Allen’s London-based...
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"Speed Racer" Has Low Impact Despite Spectacular Effects
(Friday, May 09, 2008)
Directed by the Wachowski brothers—the duo behind the Matrix trilogy—Speed Racer is another visual wonder, but it’s doubtful its impact on future films will come anywhere close to that of the Matrix films.
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"What Happens in Vegas" Should've Stayed in Vegas
(Friday, May 09, 2008)
With a threadbare plot straight out of a sitcom, What Happens in Vegas is not only the worst commercial for Sin City in a while, but the comedy is so insipid and low-brow you would’ve thought the script was penned by a junior-high boy.
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Better Luck Next Time for “Iron Man”
(Friday, May 02, 2008)
During a preview screening, squeals upon the first full look at Iron Man were a resounding signal as to what the audience had come to see—not Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. No, this man of steel—"titanium alloy" Stark specifies—is the star of the show.
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“Made of Honor” Glamorizes Sex without Commitment
(Friday, May 02, 2008)
Made of Honor is basically the equivalent of 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding. But instead of Julia Roberts doing all the scheming, we’ve got Patrick Dempsey as the single guy who doesn’t realize what he’s got until it’s (almost) gone.
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Big Laughs but Troubling Morality in “Baby Mama”
(Friday, April 25, 2008)
Former Saturday Night Live star and screenwriter (of Mean Girls) Tina Fey has perfected the role of a successful working woman who longs for a baby in her role as Liz Lemon on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. Now Fey finds similar success with Baby Mama.
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“The Visitor” Certainly Doesn’t Overstay Its Welcome
(Friday, April 25, 2008)
Instead of opting for the oh-so-informative documentary or an intense political thriller to address the hot-button topic of illegal immigration, The Visitor goes straight for the heart with an emotionally compelling drama.
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I was at the visitation tonight. It was gorgeous - just as our Ms. Dottie was!!! The photos...
5/18/2008 3:42:15 AM
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ORIGINAL: Miss Giggles She did write some of her songs though so she may be able to write for ...
5/18/2008 12:36:09 AM
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Be Ye Glad-Debbie Boone
5/18/2008 12:34:10 AM
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And Can it Be? --Charles Wesley
5/18/2008 12:26:45 AM
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I always cried when I heard CITY OF NEW ORLEANS This line And the sons of pullman porte...
5/18/2008 12:02:42 AM
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