The Holiday (review)
“You look like my Barbie doll,” a little girl tells Cameron Diaz. Bingo!
reviews by genre
So NoTORIous: The Complete Series (review)
Is this the pinnacle of our celebrity-obsessed, “reality”-overdosed pop culture?
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and Return to King Solomon’s Mines (review)
I’m reminded how darn cute Noah Wyle is by his totally charming Dr. Flynn Carson … not a medical doctor but a professional geek and know-it-all in the made-for-TV ‘Librarian’ movies…
For Your Consideration movie review: unpretty comedy
Christopher Guest and his merry band of pranksters are back, improvising a loving, teasing romp through a realm we love and love to hate, full of people fascinating and repellent at the same time.
Happy Feet (review)
Fluffy baby penguins dancing and singing and waddling around their world with wide-eyed wonder? You have to have a heart of stone not to be a puddle of goo after coming in contact with that.
That’s My Bush!: The Definitive Collection (review)
A wicked jab in the ribs to the then-new president…
I’m Alan Partridge: Series 1 (review)
Highly recommended… if you can take humor that is, paradoxically, relentlessly sad.
Guyver: Days of Future Past 1 (review)
This is the kind of stuff that makes nonfans believe that anime is nothing but bald-faced adolescent power fantasies…
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (review)
Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius. A crazy genius, maybe, a man who takes dedication to his art to a level courting criminal prosecution and bodily harm, but a genius nevertheless.
dvd mashup: intimate looks at 9/11 in ‘United 93’ and ‘The Hamburg Cell’
‘United 93’ opens with the hijackers preparing for their suicide mission, but how did those men get to that moment? The British film ‘The Hamburg Cell,’ out on DVD this coming Tuesday, shows us.
