Hey, did you hear about Did You Hear About the Morgans? That’s OK. Neither has most of the country, as the movie, a lukewarm romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker, tanked at the box office a few months ago. Your basic fish-out-of-water set-up, it sees the two stars playing an estranged New [...]
Read More blu-ray, comedy, David, Did You Hear About The Morgans, drama, DVD, Elisabeth Moss, Hugh Grant, Jesse Liebman, Marc Lawrence, Mary Steenburgen, PG-13, romance, Sam Elliott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Wilford BrimleyI goofed. I thought I was signing up to review A Christmas Tale with Catherine Deneuve, but I accidentally signed up to review Four Christmases instead. I’m not a big fan of slapstick humor or “physical” humor, and hated I Love You, Man. So you can see already that I have little credibility when it [...]
Read More comedy, drama, DVD, Dwight Yoakam, Four Christmases, Holiday, Jon Favreau, Jon Voight, joyce, Kristen Chenoweth, Mary Steenburgen, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, romance, Sissy Spacek, Tim McGraw, Vince VaughnThe Proposal is as polished and predictable a Hollywood romantic comedy as they come nowadays, but it does manage to fashion a handful of funny moments out of its wholly unoriginal concept before finally fizzling at the finish line. Sandra Bullock plays the much-disliked editor at a major publishing house who, to prevent her Canadian [...]
Read More Anne Fletcher, Betty White, comedy, Craig T Nelson, David, drama, DVD, Malin Akerman, Mary Steenburgen, Meryl Streep, PG-13, romance, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, The ProposalBottle Shock writer/director Randall Miller‘s twisty black comedy is a little too clever for it’s own good, but thanks to an offbeat cast, including Shock players Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman and Eliza Dushku, it at least has more personality than that breezy ode to California wineries.
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