Jennifer Garner’s newest film, 13 Going on 30, cements her as one of Hollywood’s brightest new stars. She possesses an enthusiasm for performing that’s engaging without ever coming off as fake or calculated. While the movie isn’t going to win any awards for originality or innovation, it’s a sweet andContinue Reading
After his performance in 2002’s Punch Drunk Love, it’s hard to accept Adam Sandler as just a goofy guy with an overactive temper anymore. Now we know he’s capable of some depth and range. Not a lot, mind you, but at least more than he ever showed before that P.Continue Reading
What if it was possible to selectively erase memories from your mind? In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the latest work by screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, a company named Lacuna, Inc. has developed a process that will do just that. Joel (Jim Carrey) has discovered that his impulsive girlfriend ClementineContinue Reading
It’s early in the year and that means mainstream theaters become a wasteland of bad comedies, B-grade action movies and the occasional Z-grade horror film. Along Came Polly, when judged from the trailer, looked to provide some welcome relief from the normal scheme of things by teaming Ben Stiller andContinue Reading
Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy are young, beautiful and not very good actors. (Well, at least in what I’ve seen them in.) With that in mind, my hopes for Just Married weren’t very high. After a promising beginning, the movie lived up to my low expectations. Tom (Kutcher) and Sarah (Murphy) haveContinue Reading
Zora (Sanaa Lathan) is a singer with big dreams. During the day, she works as a music teacher. When she moves into a brownstone apartment, she meets Franklin (Wesley Snipes), a worker doing renovation on the building. They strike up a quick friendship that eventually blossoms into romance. Franklin hasContinue Reading
The key to making an on-screen romance believable is developing chemistry between the pair of actors that are supposed to be attracted to one another. Cold Mountain, the new big-budget historical romance from director Anthony Minghella, fails to set-up any attraction at all between its principal actors and ends upContinue Reading