Sex and the City 2
Mood swings similar to those experienced by menopausal Samantha are a common side effect of exposure to Sex and the City 2. Two and a half hours (!) spent in the company of fortysomething Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte York-Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), and fiftysomething Samantha [...]
Who Is Loretta Claiborne?
A Brief Biography Of Special Olympics Runner Loretta Claiborne
Loretta Claiborne is a partially blind and mildly mentally challenged Special Olympics marathon runner who has been decorated with awards, accolades and honors. She has won ESPN’s ESPY Arthur Ashe Award for Courage (1996), had Disney produce a movie about her life (The Loretta [...]
Shrek Forever After
Dreamworks seems bored with the ogre who laid the golden egg. “Shrek Forever After,” the fourth film in the lucrative franchise, barely tampers with the Shrek formula (one-liners, flatulence jokes, pop tunes) and not enough to breathe life into the exhausted series.
Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is feeling buried under the celebrity, [...]
Princess Kaiulani
The true story of how Hawaii lost its sovereignty and became annexed to the United States might have been an interesting one, but it makes for starchy entertainment in the historical drama “Princess Kaiulani.”
Written and directed by Marc Forby and told through the eyes of its title character, a half-Hawaiian, half-Scottish princess (bloodlessly [...]
MacGruber
The yearlong ’80s flashback that is 2010 continues with “MacGruber,” a comedy that summons up memories of mullets, “MacGyver” and Mike Myers.
A blood-spattered, hit-or-miss, “out there” character comedy of the “Wayne’s World”/”Austin Powers” school, it manages to be nostalgic and profane in equal measures, a movie that’s retro and yet retrofitted [...]