Escape Move
Seven years ago, David Mamet capped a winning streak as a film director with his engaging farce State and Main, following his twisty 1997...
Vegas Babies
Five years ago Ashton Kutcher starred in a dire romantic comedy called Just Married, one of those movies that tries to present marriage as...
Q Cinema
Bo Parker speaks in torrents. His conversation, cloaked with the terminology of marketing and design, crackles with ideas.
The 32-year-old isn't a screenwriter or director,...
Wedding Crasher
All right, somebody needs to explain the whole Patrick Dempsey thing to me.
Granted, I'm at a disadvantage because I don't watch Grey's Anatomy, but...
Young Love
There's a scene early in Baby Mama where two women - a white-trashy vamp and an upscale VP - watch a dad play baseball...
Rock of Aged
If you saw the Rolling Stones' concert film Shine a Light and were impressed by the energy of those sexagenarian band members, you should...
Ex Games
Last year, Hot Fuzz came out in the third week of April and turned out to be the funniest comedy of 2007.
This year, Forgetting...
L.A. Lawlessness
The overheated yet stubbornly unexciting cop thriller Street Kings stars Keanu Reeves as Los Angeles Police Department vice-squad detective Tom Ludlow, a loose-cannon cop...
Quaid Pro Quo
Mark Jude Poirier's name will be more easily recognized by readers than cinephiles.
He's an acclaimed fiction writer whose novels (Goats) and short-story collections (Unsung...
All These Things That I’ve Done
Hollywood is in a no-win situation when it comes to Iraq. (So's the White House, but that's another story.)
If they try to make...
