Comedy

Big Daddy film review

Having seen young Anakin Skywalker in all those commercials, I was curious to see how his pairing with Adam Sandler would pan out in this revisionist Star Wars called, strangely enough, Big Daddy. We are first introduced to a young Obi-Wan Kenobi (Sandler), who finds his life at a standstill, unable to progress to the ….

Bride and Prejudice film review

Bride and Prejudice, a new film by the director of the hit Bend It Like Beckham, tries to speak to a global audience by refracting an iconic English novel through the realities of the Indian diaspora. The movie by director Gurinder Chadha takes novelist Jane Austen’s 1813 classic Pride and Prejudice and sets it in ….

The Candidate film review

"Politics is bullshit." Such sentiment, spoken early in the film, sums up The Candidate’s position on politics, not to mention my own. Robert Redford plays the title role, a fresh-faced kid and son of a former governer goaded by a group of campaign strategists (namely Peter Boyle) into running against an "unbeatable" Republican nominee for ….

Casino Royale film review

Though great he may be, there is a limit to the amount of uninterrupted Burt Bacharach music one can endure. And sadly, that limit — of music punctuated by kazoos, harpischords, and accordions — is far less than 137 minutes. There’s also a limit on the length of a spy spoof one can sit through ….

Daddy’s Little Girls film review

Year: 2007 “Daddy’s Little Girls” takes baby-mama-drama to a whole ‘notha level. The story revolves around a struggling mechanic (Idris Elba) who’s fighting for custody of his three girls from his ultra-ghettofied, hoochi-ass ex-girlfriend (Tasha Smith), whose ruthless boyfriend is the local “street pharmacist.” As he fights for custody, he falls for the attorney (Gabrielle ….

Ed Wood film review

If you go into this biopic expecting lots of laughs, you may be disappointed. The film’s premise is the joke — that the hapless director Ed Wood, Jr., the most inept figure in the history of the creative arts, would be the subject of a hagiography. Keeping this disclaimer in mind, Ed Wood is a ….

Flip the Script film review

Year: 2005 Flip the Script is a romantic comedy about two high school loves trying at reconnect as a result from the loss of a mutual high school friend. Robin Givens plays a massage therapist still holding on to feelings for her high school love, played by Miguel A. Nunez Jr., now a successful gynecologist, ….

The Gospel film review

Year: 2005 The Gospel is about a man (Boris Kodjoe); a secular music star that returns to his father’s church after his father falls ill. Now before I begin my critique, can anyone tell me if I’ll go to Hell for giving a religious film a bad review? Damn. Ok, well, I better not be ….

I Heart Huckabees film review

In David O. Russell’s I Heart Huckabees, everyone talks a little bit like they’re in a play – the dialogue is unusually dense and abstract for a film, even an artsy one, even an “existential comedy,” as this one purports to be. Huckabees is like a screwball comedy filtered through a student thesis project, but ….

High Anxiety film review

Mel Brooks does the best of his second-tier works (outside the holy canon of The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein) in this send-up of Hitchcock flicks. The story tries to ride closely to Spellbound and Vertigo, but ventures into virtually all of Hitch’s major works, including the most notable scenes from Psycho, The Birds ….

A GOOD WOMAN

Studio: Lions Gate Films Cast: Helen Hunt as Mrs. Erlynne, Scarlett Johansson as Lady Windermere, Tom Wilkinson as Tuppy, Stephen Campbell Moore as Lord Darlington, Mark Umbers as Robert Windemere, Milena Vukotic as Contessa Lucchino, Diana Hardcastle as Lady Plymdale, Roger Hammond as Cecil, Jane How as Mrs. Stutfield, Giorgia Massetti as Alessandra and John ….

CHARADE

Genre: COMEDY / MYSTERY / ROMANCE / THRILLER Release Dates: DECEMBER 5, 1963 Trailers: Windows Media Official Websites: Audrey Hepburn fan site Taglines: You can expect the unexpected when they play…Charade It’s a guessing game of mirth and mystery! Please don’t tell who did what to whom! Production Company: Universal Pictures Crew: Stanley Donen (director ….

CHICAGO

Genre: MUSICAL / COMEDY / CRIME Release Dates: December 10, 2002 Trailers: Various Trailers Official Websites: Miramax information site Disney DVD site Taglines: With the right song and dance, you can get away with murder. In a city where everyone loves a legend, there’s only room for one. It’s Just A Noisy Hall Where There’s ….