Ella Lemhagen directs Sarah Jessica Parker as a newly divorced mom who drags her unwilling daughter to Italy for a combination nostalgia trip/travel therapy/search for lost love.
Did you hear about Did You Hear about the Morgans?? Well, it’s not as bad as you may have heard. The premise of a splitsville Manhattan couple whisked away together to wild, wild Wyoming in the witness protection program is no worse than that of many a screwball comedy of …
Conventional Hollywood "biopic" on an unconventional subject of study: the ignored, ridiculed, and campily canonized director of Plan 9 from Outer Space. The disrepute, or nonrepute, of the central figure liberates the film to engage in the kind of myth-making in which the "biopic" once engaged with impunity, but which …
Medical detective problem in the pursuit of which an ER doctor uncovers an improbable experimental program dependent on homeless human guinea pigs (stopping short of uncovering the source of the funding). Michael Apted engineers a couple of grindingly effective suspense sequences -- in the subway, in an elevator -- and …
This romantic-comic bauble by Tom Dey has a definite situation, namely a mid-thirties stud still living at home with his parents. If the situation were born of any necessity -- financial, psychological, medical, or otherwise -- the film might additionally have had a subject. But since the situation is only …
Christmas comedy about the gathering of a clan, and allies, in snowy New England at the holiday. The core family, name of Stone, numbers seven, so a lot is afoot: terminal cancer, a pregnancy, a gay-couple adoption (minorities within the minority: the couple is interracial and one-half hearing impaired), an …
Matrimonial, as opposed to occupational, 9 to 5, with three high-wattage actresses exacting rah-rah revenge on the husbands who dumped them for younger women. The tripartite story -- an old, old, old story, too -- requires some laborious exposition and development. Each of the stars -- Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, …
Matrimonial, as opposed to occupational, 9 to 5, with three high-wattage actresses exacting rah-rah revenge on the husbands who dumped them for younger women. The tripartite story -- an old, old, old story, too -- requires some laborious exposition and development. Each of the stars -- Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, …
Three resurrected weird sisters (the rat-toothed Bette Midler, the bimbo-esque Sarah Jessica Parker, the jello-y Kathy Najimy: three broad actresses) chase after three dull youths in present-day Salem. This could have been prevented if only the talking black cat had spoken up before the virgin lit the black-flame candle on …
Three resurrected weird sisters (the rat-toothed Bette Midler, the bimbo-esque Sarah Jessica Parker, the jello-y Kathy Najimy: three broad actresses) chase after three dull youths in present-day Salem. This could have been prevented if only the talking black cat had spoken up before the virgin lit the black-flame candle on …
Writer and director Andrew Bergman (So Fine, The Freshman) will go a long way for a gag -- and a planeload of skydiving Elvis impersonators en route to a convention of their brethren in Las Vegas may fairly be described as "far-out." But Bergman can be oddly plodding about getting …
She does it all: big-deal investment planning, motherhood, husband-care, cooking, endless e-mailing, and tireless posing as chick-flick star Sarah Jessica Parker, whose charm smile could have cheered up Stalingrad in 1942. She is surrounded by prettier women, but lonely biz wiz Pierce Brosnan is drawn to go-go Parker, while her …
Steve Martin as the would-be Woody of Los Angeles: or in other words, daring at last to poke his head out of the closet of eggheadism. The sole scriptwriter on the project, Martin has a fund of observations on the lifestyle thereabouts, embellished (and befogged) with exaggeration and fantasy, and …
Tim Burton's sniggering hommage to grade-B science fiction. Hordes of computer-animated Little Green Men with big heads and exposed brains, reminiscent of the aliens in This Island Earth, annihilate the majority of the big-name cast (including Jack Nicholson in two roles, Glenn Close, Martin Short, Michael J. Fox, Danny DeVito, …
The relationship thing. Old marrieds, new marrieds, engaged-to-be-marrieds. Kicked around in dialogue that seems to have an ear cocked for a laugh track ("He's still the most charming man I've ever met. I just can't stand to be with him right now" and "Fifty percent of all marriages end in …