• April 24, 2009
• At Home, Comedy

Angela (Heather Graham) and Curtis (Jerry O’Connell) are an up-and-coming young couple who have spent most of their married life focused on their careers. Curtis is a successful (if...

• April 19, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Music

Now that I’ve seen Hannah Montana: The Movie, I can actually answer that pesky question that haunts many people over the age of 13: What up with this Hannah...

• April 17, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

17 Again wastes no time appeasing its target audience: In the opening sequence, we get to see Zac Efron shirtless (six-pack gleaming with sweat), shooting baskets with ease, smiling...

• April 5, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Don’t be misled by the resume of Adventureland‘s writer/director Greg Mottola. He is best known for directing the super-raunch-fest Superbad, the amazingly foul-mouthed comedy that took teen sex comedies...

• April 2, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Bambi taught a string of generations about death, and now a whole new generation, pulled into what was advertised as a family-friendly kiddie movie, will be traumatized by Marley...

• March 14, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family

I’ve been mocked wholeheartedly for enjoying (despite my initial resistance) Snow Buddies, which is one of the many straight-to-video sequels spawned by this original Disney hit. “Come on!” I...

• March 3, 2009
• At Home, Comedy

I might as well admit that I settled in to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua with a fair amount of cynicism. The opening scenes left me staring bitterly at the...

• February 13, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Romance

What the hell, Hollywood? So far, 2009 blows for women in film. First, Bride Wars told audiences that women are selfish, superficial, vindictive hellions who care only about themselves...

• February 8, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

I know I said I would watch Viggo Mortensen muck out stalls in my Hidalgo review, but I never quite factored Sandra Bullock into the deal. It’s like being...

• February 3, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Crime, Music

As a rule, I can count the things I hated about the 80s on one hand. In fact, it usually doesn’t even take a whole hand to do so....

• December 1, 2008
• At Home, Comedy, Television

Leave it to Stephen Colbert and friends to come up with a Christmas special that is completely irreverent, strangely traditional, and introduces a handful of new holiday songs that...

• November 26, 2008
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Fred Claus has issues. For one thing, he’s spent most of his life living in the shadow of his saintly brother, Nicholas (yes, Saint Nicholas, a rotund goody-goody of...