What Would Jesus Buy? (review)

What if we all stopped shopping? Not for the basic necessities, obviously, but what if we stopped buying all the useless gadgets and made-in-China junk that we don’t need, that pushes us deeper into debt, that fails to satisfy the inarticulate cravings that send us to the mall on a recreational buying binge in the first place?

Alvin and the Chipmunks (review)

This big-screen adaptation is based on an 80s cartoon, some fans are saying, but not really: it’s based on three fake singing forest rats from the 1950s. It’s hardcore evidence of what should have been a pop culture novelty gone disturbingly mainstream. Isn’t that enough?

Fred Claus (review)

It’s got… something, this silly flick that’s just a little bit profound in its goofiness, this wonderland of schtick that touches on the dark flipside of all the ho-ho-ho and enforced jolliment of the Holiday Season(TM).

The Family Stone (review)

So, I was raving to a friend about this great new movie I’d just seen, *The Family Stone,* how it’s about this big wacky family getting together for Christmas– And she stopped me right there with a moan and said, Oh God, it’s not like that Jodie Foster movie *Home for the Holidays,* is it? And I said, Why, yes, it’s exactly like that, but even better. She moaned again and said, Oh, I hate that movie.