It’s 1985. Robby Hart (Adam Sandler) is a wedding singer in a small New Jersey town. He makes $60.00 a gig singing on the weekends and receives meatballs as payment for singing lessons during the week. Julia (Drew Barrymore) is a waitress at the hall where Robby frequently does weddings.Continue Reading
Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the makers of Dumb & Dumber and Kingpin, have a knack for making some of the most unusual, but funny, comedies to come down the pike in quite a while. Sometimes, their unique brand of humor results in some outlandish and hilarious sequences. Other times, itContinue Reading
Jennifer Aniston takes a detour from her Friends persona in this 1997 romantic comedy. I’m not a big fan of Friends, but I have always thought that Jennifer Aniston was an adequate actress. Her comrades, David Schwimmer (The Pallbearer) and Courteney Cox (Scream) have both been in movies that IContinue Reading
James Cameron must feel quite vindicated by the current success of his $200 million epic, Titanic. Over the past year, the movie was deemed a failure waiting to happen as story after story of the studio’s concern about the movie’s budget leaked out. But, after just over three weeks inContinue Reading
Julia Roberts’ true acting career started out with this fine little movie about love and life in the fishing community of Mystic, Connecticut. In the film, Julia plays Daisy, one of two sisters working at a pizzeria called Mystic Pizza. Daisy is basically a slacker, who lives off her looksContinue Reading
After Pretty Woman, Sleeping with the Enemy, and Flatliners, Julia Roberts’ movie career has been less-than-sizzling. Yes, she’s been in some fairly decent movies but, apparently, if a female movie star doesn’t rake in $100 million everytime out, she’s perceived as a failure. My Best Friend’s Wedding has been oneContinue Reading
Romantic comedies are pretty much a dime a dozen. They’re usually quite predictable and too cute for their own good. Addicted to Love falls mostly into that same mold but, somehow, it remains quite watchable. Matthew Broderick plays Sam, an astronomer, who’s in love with Linda (Kelly Preston), a grade-schoolContinue Reading