The stars of The Room, Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero, return in this quirky comedy about a drifter and a mortician. Justin MacGregor directs Sestero's script.
Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin, scriptwriting partners who are also husband and wife, have written a semi-private joke about scriptwriting partners who become husband and wife, and about what happens next. The various topics that are ambled through are hardly very private: Hollywood producers, health-food restaurants, wedding chapels, trains, weather, …
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Christopher Guest's gallery of caricatures of the people at and around the fictitious Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show: funny, yet disappointing. Or in other words: not as funny as his Waiting for Guffman, and lavishly overpraised in the reviews. (It gives reviewers a chance to be funny, in turn, by …
What's this? Quarrelling already? You don't waste much time. That's a mouthful from the screenplay by Ingmar Bergman (directed by the Danish-born Bille August of Pelle the Conqueror) based on the courtship and early married life of his actual parents, a pious Lutheran pastor in a Godforsaken rural outpost and …
The stage musical Burt Reynoldsized (and Dom DeLuisized). Dolly Parton is fine (despite doing a pointless and less good rendition of one of her best songs, "I Will Always Love You"), and Charles Durning prances onto the scene too late and too briefly to do much good, and Colin Higgins …
An arranged marriage disarranged, due in large part to the electrical charge between the sullen bride and the somber best man, just returned to his Italian hometown from America, with advanced ideas on social equality. Nicely detailed as to customs and period (the last day of the 19th Century), but …
An agreeable R-rated rom-com turns into a high-handed sentimental tear-jerker before piously wasting away. It’s time we sue Universal for false advertising. The breezy trailer for Malcolm Lee’s follow-up to his 1999 hit, The Best Man, promises “All the sex, all the secrets, all the surprises,” and none of the …
A female, powerfully outspoken African-American civil rights activist convinced the winner of the 1971 Ku Klux Klan award for Exalted Cyclops of the Year (aka the Oscars of hate) to vote in favor of desegregation. Taraji P. Henson stars as Ann Atwater, the community organizer who gradually thaws to the …
Necessity is a mother of an inventor. Because they could not afford gavel-to-gavel coverage of the 1968 Republican and Democratic conventions, the bright boys at ABC News opted for a different sort of spectacle: nightly debates between conservative gadfly William F. Buckley, Jr. (National Review) and liberal author Gore Vidal …
Geoffrey Rush gets a sexy old-timer role as an art appraiser who finds himself called to a house filled with possible treasures, presided over by a woman who doesn't want to be known. Or seen. What is the Italian for Ooh la la?
Boy from the wrong side of the tracks (played at varying ages by Luke Bracey and James Marsden) falls for rich man’s daughter (Liana Liberato/Michelle Monaghan). An inability to divine where this timeworn premise might lead makes you the perfect audience demographic. Nicholas Sparks’ notion of destiny is two different …
Duncan Shepherd's review should give ample explanation for what the MST3K boys found appealing here.
The Masters of Mockery take on our generation's Plan 9 from Outer Space.