Movie Reviews

Now nearly a century later, her story like her life and her once enduring radio and television persona Molly Goldberg, is being lifted out of obscurity and remembered and revered, in the documentary Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg.

The Beaches of Agnes (Unrated) 81 year-old, legendary director Agnès Varda chronicles her own career as a member of French cinema's Rive Gauche movement in this revealing auto-bio-pic.

A kind of extreme Michael Moore in drag and on Viagra, the brilliantly rude Sacha Baron Cohen embarks on his latest cinematic equal opportunity icon smasher, with all the gusto of a sex-crazed lunatic fringe narcissistic flaming screen queen.

A movie about a haunted house may not be so 'been there done that,' considering the housing nightmare these days. And which renders the notion in Peter Cornwell's The Haunting In Connecticut not quite so far fetched, what with the foreclosure crisis

In 1996, Theresa Russell starred in a picture called Public Enemies, a mob saga glorifying Ma Barker's reign of terror as the matriarch of a crew of bank robbers comprised of her own sons.

In the film, Raul is an indigent US pop culture fanatic, biding his time in a seedy slum while mulling a scheme to connive his way on to an American Idol local TV show, Chilean style, for a John Travolta/Saturday Night Fever impersonation competitio

If you every want to get a good idea of what it's like to try to make it in show business, for better or worse, you might like to check out Entourage.

An alternately kooky and kinky comedy about the impossibility of establishing a science of romance, I Hate Valentine's Day like the temptations of its topic on hand, is unbearably flaky but hard to resist.

Slick to the point of making me gag, Nick, Joe and Kevin's transparent act is designed to melt the hearts of tweenyboppers in that first crush phase of life.

The incendiary tale unfolds in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn over the course of the hottest day of the year in New York City.

For any mother who has ever fretted over whether she's given birth to a devilish offspring, The Unborn should not be on your to-do list any time soon.

I am sure there is going to be a number of folks from the USS Liberty activist crowd that will make a lot of hay out of me suggesting such a thing, but let's face it.

A stunningly stylized doomsday noir that elegantly rises above the often hokey yarn wildly spinning out of control within, Knowing captivates, even at its most outlandish.

It soon becomes apparent that a smothering Jewish mom and borderline child stalker (Isabella Rossellini) is going to get the blame, as she frets over her evidently disturbed thirtysomething son and whether or not he's taking his meds.

When their daughter Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) is diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) at the age of 2, Sara and Brian Fitzgerald (Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric) are willing to do whatever it takes to save her life.

The filmmaker also succeeds in amazing with never less than convincing multiple emotional points of view in which flawed human beings aren't pigeon-holed as saints or sinners.

The aspiring DJ is not exactly great father material, being an unemployed, 33 year-old college dropout who fritters away his days in such unproductive pursuits as whittling a piece of wood and taking a self-defense classes

Any account of war told through a subjective eye and presented as a 'true story,' must always be approached with caution, while tempered with sympathy for its victims.

In 1994, the popular computer game Street Fighter was adapted to the big screen as an incoherent concatenation of poorly-choreographed, martial arts action starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

It's as if Mann shortchanged a vibrant era, as somehow a time that lacked everything that defines life today, sort of no frills retro-crimefighting without benefit of cyberspace, cell phones and Blackberries.