A personal and cathartic film by Alan Pakula (writer, director), who examines the subject of second marriages, and extracts something slick and fake (the marriage proposal in a Cupid costume, etc.). For all its Lelouchian free-form, it's methodical, slow, prosaic. And it pretty much drops the free-form before the halfway …
Science-fiction juvenilia, in Robert Heinlein vein (or for nonreaders, George Lucas vein), about "humanity's last great hope" after the destruction of our planet by the dreaded Dredge in the 31st Century. The self-described "last great hope" is hardly more than a juvenile himself (voice of Matt Damon), and his foremost …
The jokes are no worse (or better): "What a babe. She'd give a dog a bone." But Mike Myers and Dana Carvey are no younger, and the camera is no farther away from them. The most fun is in spotting the star cameos: Heather Locklear, Harry Shearer, Kim Basinger, Drew …
Adam Sandler bids to expand his range -- into niceness, romanticness, sweetness, dullness. (Actually, he had reached dullness before, but from another direction.) His bitterness over his broken heart permits him an occasional lapse, too, into more familiar Sandlerisms. There's a well-conceived screen moment when he misinterprets the mood of …
Adam Sandler bids to expand his range -- into niceness, romanticness, sweetness, dullness. (Actually, he had reached dullness before, but from another direction.) His bitterness over his broken heart permits him an occasional lapse, too, into more familiar Sandlerisms. There's a well-conceived screen moment when he misinterprets the mood of …
Petite, apathetic Ellen Page finds a new calling — as "Babe Ruthless — in the rough-and-tumble of Austin roller derby, leading to a calendar conflict between the championship game and, her mother's dearest dream, the Bluebonnet Beauty Pageant. Drew Barrymore, who plays a minor supporting part, takes to the director's …