• February 9, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Funny, poignant, joyful and filled with beauty, this comedy-drama from director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) and writer Ol Parker (Imagine Me and You, which I also loved beyond...

• February 9, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

As anyone who’s read my reviews before knows, I’m generally not a fan of frat-boy humor. With rare exceptions, I don’t think gross-out jokes are funny, I don’t get...

• February 9, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Romance

After watching Rock Hudson make a complete goon of himself in Giant, I felt compelled to give him another chance. I was advised that he’s cute in light comedies...

• February 6, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Horror, Romance

Anyone who knows me knows that I love the current trend of Young Adult fantasy/horror/supernatural/dystopian stories that have flooded pop culture, first invading bookstores, and now movie theaters. I...

• January 26, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

I remember trying to watch Grand Hotel for the first time years ago on DVD. I’m always game for beefing up on my Oscar history, and I had never...

• January 18, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Based upon Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, the film explores the relationship between a stubborn Southern woman, Daisy (Jessica Tandy), and her good-natured but equally determined driver, Hoke...

• December 31, 2012
• At Home, Comedy

Though not quite a komedy klassic, the male model spoof Zoolander is definitely good for some cheap-and-easy laughs (and even a few guffaws). Ben Stiller plays Derek Zoolander, a...

• December 26, 2012
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Music

Oh dear. I think I just watched a movie about myself in middle age, and it’s not pretty. I’m going to turn out like Grace Beasley (Kathy Bates), married...

• December 26, 2012
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

As a director, Jerzy Stuhr’s work will probably always have the shadow of a certain influence… a man who he worked with several times in his long acting career....

• December 24, 2012
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

“Take Me Home Tonight” by Eddie Money and Ronnie Spector is quite easily one of the best songs of the 80s.  Use that song as the title of a...

• December 20, 2012
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Admittedly Yemen has an image problem, especially in the West. The Brits in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen know this, as does Brit-friendly Sheikh Muhammed (Amr Waked) who has...

• December 20, 2012
• At Home, Comedy

Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd reprise their Knocked Up roles as Debbie and Pete, a ridiculously-charming-because-of-their-flaws pair of married suburbanites each on the brink of turning the big 4-0...