Katniss Everdeen won her murder tournament in The Hunger Games. Now she has to deal with the aftermath. Once again, the best reason for seeing a Hunger Games movie is star Jennifer Lawrence, whose protean, Old Hollywood visage brings to mind the line about how They Had Faces Then. And …
Don’t blame the Apatow connection for this one. Director Seth Gordon (Four Christmases, Horrible Bosses) steals a few chapters from the John Hughes playbook as he tries in vain to transform Melissa McCarthy into this generation's John Candy. Playing an alcoholic sociopath in a Bozo fright wig, she uses the …
Italian drama from director Antonio Morabito.
Ja Rule plays a rich dude with a checkered past who wants to get with a girl who goes to Bible study and has parents who pray for a godly man to show up in her life. More importantly, Stephen Baldwin!
Pedro Almodovar's latest is a drawing-room sex comedy set in the first-class cabin of Peninsula Flight 2549. The flight is in trouble — caused, don't you know, by ordinary, heterosexual, procreative sex between a couple on the ground. (She has morning sickness and crashes a luggage cart; he rushes to …
Sharp little showbiz story about Carol, a woman seeking to follow her famous father into the world of movie trailer narration. The King — gravel-voiced god Don La Fontaine — is dead, and the industry needs a new voice to tell the world about its latest girl-friendly action epic. Dad …
The former Soviet Union, 1992: A young turk whisks his high school crush to a clandestine spot and instead of stealing a first kiss, he gifts her with a gun. It’s a formidable shock, but one that never amounts to much as all we’re asked to do for another hour …
Funny enough satire about that tragic juncture in American history where the glitz of “big room” Vegas illusionists was eclipsed by common street magicians. There's a moment where the title character, played by Steve Carell, encounters his childhood idol and inspiration, Rance Holloway (Alan Arkin), in a nursing home. Carrell …
The Coen brothers, as successful a pair as any in show business today, consider the fate of a '60s folk duo after one of them jumps off a bridge. (This being the Coen brothers, it is of course the wrong bridge: the George Washington instead of the Brooklyn). Surprise, surprise: …
Boy, that "Chapter 2" in the title is ominous. How long is this book, anyway?
Kids, am I right? You have them sometimes after you have sex! And sometimes the mom drops one off and then disappears on you! For years! And then sometimes, she comes back and makes trouble! This is a comedy about that.
Is the structure — Bad News Bears try to win the Internalympics at Google and so get jobs — hackneyed? Yes. Is the comedy spotty? Yes. Is the pacing a mess, with several sort-of funny bits dragging on waaaaay too long? Yes, yes, yes. But viewers of a certain age …
How far will you travel for love? To the movie theater, perhaps? To find out of Arya can score yet another hit after the back to back successes of Settai and Raja Rani?