It places more focus on the childish fabulousness of Tom Sawyer than the racial reckoning of Huckleberry Finn.
Lee Toland Krieger’s Celeste and Jesse Forever is an honest and breezily melancholic film.
Illogical and proudly crude plot developments are par for the course in Billion Dollar Movie.
The ensemble here is mostly padded out with anonymous Norwegians acting as disposable creature fodder.
The film is the kind of mass-produced, phoned-in laziness that reinforces mainstream entertainment’s bad name.
Director Catherine Jeffs lucked out when she scored Amy Adams and Emily Blunt to co-star in her mildly pleasing dramedy Sunshine Cleaning.
Fired Up plays like a direct-to-video American Pie sequel.
The only amusing thing about License to Wed is the idea that it’s supposed to be funny in the first place.
Another abysmally photographed film by the Brozen Lizard crew that both plays better and looks better on the small screen.
As if Hollywood films needed any outside help to celebrate arrested narcissism, along comes The Last Kiss.
Both filthier and funnier than Broken Lizard’s prior efforts, Beerfest is still decidedly hit-and-miss.
One of the best Hollywood pop films of 2004, Cellular gets a handsome audio/video treatment on this New Line Platinum Series DVD.
David R. Ellis’s proficient direction helps sustain a consistently frantic, tense pace.
Embarrassed to buy this DVD? Don’t worry, it can’t be any worse than having to review it.
Its self-devouring gags quickly reach their expiration way before their all-too-familiar payoffs are announced.
A film is always in trouble when it has more screenwriters than cast members.