• August 7, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Hank and Asha is a romance that is one step ahead of You’ve Got Mail, while holding back slightly from watching two people chat via Skype. Our two titular...

• August 6, 2014
• At Home, Comedy

Because even though both Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann are women, and play characters with names (Carly and Kate, respectively), the ONLY thing they ever talk about in this...

• July 25, 2014
• At Home, Comedy

Vince Vaughn stars as Peter La Fleur, an aimless but contented slacker who runs Average Joe’s gymnasium – a sort of haven for the geeky, the unathletic and the...

• July 25, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Wag the Dog is one of those films that will probably have cyclical relevance through the years, depending on who is in the Oval Office. There will be years...

• July 24, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Drama, War

For starters, I couldn’t quite tell whether Clooney’s latest directorial effort – an amiable but somewhat forgettable WWII picture about a rag-tag group of art-loving guys tasked with recovering,...

• July 18, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

I haven’t had this much fun at the movies since Babel! No, really, now…. The Host is a silly horror movie which is so danged non-stop entertaining that I...

• July 2, 2014
• At Home, Comedy

On the surface, The Birdcage could not be a more straightforward movie. When Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) decide to get married, they face the...

• June 19, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jessica Stein, a typical neurotic Jewish Princess New Yorker (who, for some reason, movies have always thought are much more interesting than Gretel, bland farm girl from Kansas), has...

• June 13, 2014
• At Home, Comedy

Less a remake than a clever reboot, this big-screen incarnation of the iconic 1980s TV series of the same name simultaneously embraces formula and turns it on its ear....

• June 10, 2014
• At Home, Comedy

Napoleon Dynamite is so flippin’ funny I can hardly stand it. I have no shame—I don’t care if Spielberg directed it. But I should preface all this by confessing...

• June 2, 2014
• At Home, Comedy

The Art of the Steal is a harsh reminder that it’s no longer 1983, and presumably very few girls still have posters of Matt Dillon stuck to their bedroom walls....

• May 29, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Mary Haines (Norma Shearer), wife and mother, is basically a saint. She cuddles with her daughter (also named Mary) as they coo over pictures from her honeymoon, explaining how...