Movie Reviews

Zane (not her real name) is the best-selling author of a plethora of African-American-oriented erotica, including Dear G Spot, Afterburn, Gettin' Buck Wild, The Heat Seekers, Addicted and The Sex Chronicles, to name a few.

Which according to the gypsies is an irreversible fate worse than death, because only his annihilation will put all the humans in the vicinity out of harm's way.

While Valentine's Day is allegedly the busiest time of the year for the delivery of mushy messages and corny love trinkets all around town, the same should never be the case in a movie.

The Bobby Dukes Story) is not at all shy about his characters breaking out in raunchy rants on occasion, there's never a sense that salacious shock rather than sly mischief is key.

Quantity is not necessarily quality, or rather familiarity. So basically, you're no Scorsese or Woody, however intriguing or fanciful the geographically generic journey of most of these filmmakers.

To live off a man, preferably of the filthy rich variety, or decipher how to scrounge for a living on one's own, by sheer wits, con and/or ingenuity.

One of the most satisying movie experiences, for audiences along with the actors too, is when the cast seems to be having as genuinely wild a time as you are, way beyond just a job, in playing off one another in the film.

Jason (Jason Bateman) and Cynthia (Kristen Bell) are on the brink of separating. She hears her biological clock ticking, but their visits to a fertility clinic have been futile due to a low sperm count caused by testicular cancer.

Even without getting the benefits of formal education, they understood their work and transmitted it generations after generations with utmost efficiency and dexterity.

Eleonore Hendricks, who co-wrote the film with Safdie, is Eleonore - hopefully no composite of the female screenwriter in real life.

A movie with a title like From Paris with Love automatically invites invidious comparisons with From Russia with Love, the James Bond classic based on the Ian Fleming intriguing spy novel of the same name.

Mel Gibson returns to the front of camera in a tense, violent thriller.

Make no mistake, My One And Only is infused with heaps of sparkling humor and dazzling wit, though a kind of makeover stinging screwball blend served up raw.

Though book-to-screen adaptations more often than not present problematic situations, with The Time Traveler's Wife a greater dilemma may be adapting to characters in repeated transitions between the past, present and future.

While inducing massive cringes about real estate is no big feat during this ongoing national foreclosure crisis offscreen, perpetrating true effective horror fare continues to elude most filmakers.

Dora Allen (Paula Wilson) is blessed with a special talent, namely, the ability to offer anybody just the right relationship advice they're looking for.

Numerous theories and legends have abounded since then, including a persistent rumor that she was shot down and executed by the Japanese over Saipan Island, for her role as a WWII US spy and an American version of Tokyo Rose.

If you think television significantly lowers a country's collective IQ, imagine a nation as a vast idiot box theme park, whose prime minister is also the reigning media empire mogul.

While one man's terrorist may be another's freedom fighter, it's not quite as simple when it comes to CIA operatives and your basic serial killer.

A series of clandestine meetings were set up by Michael Young (Jonny Lee Miller) an executive with Consolidated Goldfields, a British mining company with financial interests in the region and thus a big stake in a smooth transition to majority rule.