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...
Survivor Girl
Wendy Orr wrote a story when she was nine years old.
Decades later it turned into her 2002 novel Nim's Island, a slim and...
Fat Pegg
I wrote the headline on this story because I'm helpless in the face of an easy pun, but seriously, Simon Pegg isn't fat.
If you've...
Blackjacked
The low-temperature gambling thriller 21 is based on Ben Mezrich's book Bringing Down the House, his account of a ring of MIT math students...
Carlitos’ Way
The recent surge in Mexican-made films on both sides of the U.S. border has had mostly positive results, but I suppose we were due...
