The jokes are no worse (or better): "What a babe. She'd give a dog a bone." But Mike Myers and Dana Carvey are no younger, and the camera is no farther away from them. The most fun is in spotting the star cameos: Heather Locklear, Harry Shearer, Kim Basinger, Drew …
Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris rejects his proposal, …
The plot would sound in synopsis like a sex farce. Wai-Tung, a real-estate entrepreneur transplanted from Taiwan to New York, has three reasons to marry Wei-Wei, a Mainland Chinese artist who rents a loft from Wai-Tung in Lower Manhattan: first, to get a tax break; second, to get a green …
Actually it's the couple of days after the weekend, and it's at a resort in the Virgin Islands, where Bernie's corpse is reanimated by a combination of voodoo and calypso. Physical abuse of the dead is the prime source of humor -- nowhere near a fountainhead, closer to a dripping …
Feature-length cartoon beneath the Spielberg banner, in which a quartet of highly evolved dinosaurs -- English-speaking, peace-loving, on account of eating Prof. Neweyes's Brain Grain breakfast food -- travel to contemporary New York in the professor's time machine, and encounter his evil brother, Prof. Screweyes, ringmaster of the Eccentric Circus …
The sort of title that seems highly unlikely to precede a good movie. What follows in this instance does not lower the odds. As a slice of family life in small-town America, the movie is so hell-bent on being "different" as to be unrecognizable as small-town America or as family …
Musical bio on rock-and-roller Tina Turner, her relationship with her mentor, partner, husband, and abuser Ike Turner, and her eventual self-regeneration as a solo artist. The conventional form and tempo are much enriched by the period detail (changes in fashions are an inexhaustible source of amusement) and enlivened by the …
This Gothic-romantic costume drama about colonial life in the West Indies (the heat, the drums, the perspiry chests) comes from highborn literary stock: Jean Rhys's speculative "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Or in a nutshell: whence the madwoman in the attic? But the Australian filmmaker John Duigan, the man …
Overlong and unsatisfying as a documentary portrait of its human subject (hampered in part by the nonagenarian's defensive, disingenuous shading of her relationship with Adolf Hitler). Worthwhile nonetheless for the pristine clips from her filmmaking oeuvre, not just from Olympia and Triumph of the Will, but from rarities as well. …
Sounds more interesting in summary than it looks on screen, where it suffers from a formal tidiness and rigidity not uncharacteristic of Chinese imports. The worthy-of-Buñuel perversities -- the tragicomic demise of a groom on his wedding day, the bride's coerced pledge of fidelity to her fiancé's carved effigy, the …