Film & TV
Film
Silverstone rises from the dead
From the producers of Barbershop and Bringing Down the House, Beauty Shop transports the ethos of the "ghetto" Barbershop to a women's salon.
by STEPHEN R. MORSE
Film
Review: The Pacifier
A Navy Seal turns in his helicopters and semi-automatics to navigate the perils of suburbia: diapers, diapers, diapers (let's just say excrement-related humor abounds) and darned kids who simply refuse to wear their tracking devices.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Disney Disses Harvard
"From small town Mathlete to big time Athlete," says the movie poster. Sounds promising, eh?
Ice Princess is only watchable if you bring a punching bag for irritating Joan Cusack moments.
by PERRIN BAILEY
Film
Don't Go to Bars
It's 10 p.m. on St. Patrick's Day, and you still have no plans. Your "friends" all went downtown to bars, but you can't go because your fake was confiscated at a party a couple weeks ago, and you weren't willing to pay the bouncer $50 to get it back.
by 34TH STREET
Film
I just want to thank my girlfriend...
It's about midnight, and I'm greeted with the abrasive jarring sound of a moving cart rolling over brick in the lobby of Sansom West.
by MAWUSE ZIEGBE
Film
Rory has muscular dystrophy
It's easy to expect inspiration with Rory O'Shea Was Here. The film tells of Rory O 'Shea (James McAvoy), a rebellious teen with muscular dystrophy, and his friendship with Michael Connelly (Steven Robertson), a shy boy whose cerebral palsy gives him difficulty speaking.
by JENNIFER ZUCKERMAN
Film
Just a little deeper...
During the opening credits of this documentary on the controversial 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat, Supertramp's "Crime of the Century" plays, appropriately creating a foreboding tone for the rest of the film.
by JANICE HAHN
Film
Adrien Brody? a Gulf War Vet?
Chosen for Official Selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, produced by Steven Soderbergh and starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody, The Jacket has all the credentials to be a great film.
by RUBEN BROSBE
Film
Dave Serenades animals
Based on the children's book by Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie is the story of ten-year-old Opal (AnnaSophia Robb), who, still mystified by her mother's departure seven years earlier, struggles to find her way in a new town.
by MICHELLE DUBERT
Film
Back up in yo' Face
It's two o'clock in the afternoon at the Ritz-Carlton, and action star Tony Jaa, promoting his new movie, Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, is still without lunch.
by JIM NEWELL
Film
Keanu Reeves still can't act
Constantine is intense. Intense like that shady guy standing outside Wawa on Spruce and 38th, intense like the lines for elliptical machines at Pottruck, intense like ... well, you get the point.
by ERIN BRANCHE
Film
Wait, Where's Jim Carrey?
Never has Jim Carrey's penchant for physical humor been demonstrated more clearly than in 1994's The Mask, when he played Stanley Ipkiss' bedeviled character with unparalleled aplomb.
by YONA SILVERMAN
Film
You a Ho
To set it straight, Born into Brothels will make you feel guilty if you're expecting dirty distraction.
by PERRIN BAILEY
Film
Spiking The Punch
In his newsboy cap and jeans, Spike Lee saunters onto the stage in a packed Zellerbach auditorium. He seems irritated that he has to engage an audience of eager and inquisitive fans and scholars.
by MAWUSE ZIEGBE
Film
Editors' pick: Favorite V-day movie
Lisa Tauber (Guides):
Valentine
Starring the queen of shitty movies, Denise Richards, this movie is just so ridiculous that it's good.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Kevin James, You Can't Dance
Hitch rises above a seemingly formulaic plot to ultimately become a funny and enjoyable film in the middle of Hollywood's dead season.
Will Smith plays Alex Hitchens, dating superhero, sworn to protect men from their own bad habits, poor taste and insecurity.
by MATT KURUC
Film
Jaa-rule
Certain films, like Prachya Pinkaew's Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, exist as nothing more than a platform to display a person's tremendous physical talents.
by JIM NEWELL
Film
A Better than average chick flick
Though all the hopeless romantics out there hoping to meet and fall in love with a male escort might disagree, The Wedding Date is a disappointment.
by ROB COHEN
Film
The Jamie Foxx Show
Best Picture:
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways
According to most experts, 2004 was a poor year for movies.
by JIM NEWELL
Film
Love Me, Mr. Darcy
Jane Austin started it. Helen Fielding's modernized it. Now, director Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham) has taken the novel Pride and Prejudice (as well as women's perpetual lust for Mr. Darcy) and injected some good ol' Bollywood in it.
by JANICE HAHN
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