The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Comedy
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
Confessions of a Shopaholic is a silly comedy about a serious addict. In this case, the addict is Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher), who gets a...
Pineapple Express (2008)
The Pineapple Express is a stoner comedy about two potheads who accidentally start a war between competing drug lords. Given that, I expected a goofy...
Speed Racer (2008)
Speed Racer is not a movie, it is two hours of bad special effects fused onto a lot of music, loud noises and corporate logos. ...
Dan in Real Life (2007)
I have come to anticipate the moment when Steve Carrell walks into a room. He has that kind of presence where he can be funny...
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
The institution of the dysfunctional family has been fodder for a thousand independent films. It's a dependable old device on which filmmakers often hang eccentric...
Winter Passing (2005)
I have a great affection for movies that zero in on a particular character's eccentricities. Winter Passing is a movie heads in that direction and...
Home Alone 4: Takin’ Back the House (2002)
Home Alone 4 might be the strangest movie ever filmed in Capetown, South Africa. That's not a joke; the budget on this movie was so...
