> Watch it At Home; Something Acceptable. As romantic comedies with Kate Hudson go, SOMETHING BORROWED isn’t so bad. After her spectacular debut in Almost Famous, Hudson’s become something of a brand nam...
UPSTREAM COLOR: Worth A Ticket – But Not If You Require Coherent Plotting I’d be lying if I said I really knew what the hell was going on in UPSTREAM COLOR, and yet the experience of watching it was surpris...
THE VOW: Not Even For Free – Forget About It This year has brought us a far-fetched, but ultimately moving and deeply romantic story about a couple who have finally gotten together and married after...
MISTRESSES: Monday 10PM on ABC Previously… on MISTRESSES: A group of friends are all enmeshed, one way or another, in wayward sex, including Savannah (Alyssa Milano), a lawyer who compensated for the woes of ha...
TO THE WONDER: Malick Twirls and Twirls and Doesn’t Get Anywhere Terrence Malick’s last film The Tree of Life was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; his new TO THE WONDER is receiving only a ...
CW’s good-humored not-Gilmore Girls small town romance HART OF DIXIE concluded its first season tonight with the same pleasant, likable, unthrilling touch it’s had since last fall. Hart isn’t really abo...
> Worth A Ticket: A teen movie unlike any other. Richard Ayoade’s emotionally rich SUBMARINE is shaping up as one of the sadder stories of the indie boxoffice season. It was greeted rapturously at the Toronto...
> Plot spoilers are even more problematic when it comes to limited releases, because by definition they’re only being seen by a few people in certain selected locations, and–if they’re good–will ideally ...
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO – Tuesday 9PM on CW CW has gone back to its WB/UPN roots for ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, a reboot and update of the Roswell series that debuted on the first of those networks in 1999, then moved to the...
> When the PaleyFest panels end, cast members often linger for a bit to sign autographs and otherwise make contact with the fans. Therefore when the moderator says “Thank you” and the lights go up, there’...
The midseason finale of the purported romantic thriller BEAUTY & THE BEAST delivered almost all romance, no thrills, as it continues to have only a glancing relationship with its title. Plotting has been this show...
What kind of show, in the end, is HOMELAND? Focus groups are often asked simply to describe whatever it is they’ve just seen, and Homeland has tried to be a romance, a thriller, an action adventure, a story about...
> And so we come to the age-old query: after 6 months and 22 half-hours of television, has WHITNEY gotten any better? Well, it’s changed. A revisit to the show on the occasion of its season finale, written by ...
> Worth A Ticket; Birds Fly High Enough for Kids, and Adults Too. Click For More Reviews: THOR PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Animation has, over the past decade, passed beyond ...