Married Life examines a batch of characters with a twisted sense of right and wrong.

Corruption, immorality, decadence, secrecy, loyalty, selfishness, selflessness, murder, love, sex and indigestion are all swirling around one another in Married Life, director Ira Sachs’ adaptation of the 1955 John Bingham... read on»

By Josh Rosenblatt posted April 24, 2008 12:00 AM

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Pregnancy comedy grates expectations for Tina Fey.

Whenever people star in their own American Express commercials, they’re not just selling credit cards, but establishing themselves as products, too. Tina Fey’s recent Am Ex spot provides a perfect... read on»

By Curt Holman posted April 24, 2008 12:00 AM

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall plays its protagonist’s exposed emotions for laughs.

How do you forget someone you can’t escape? You can’t. But Forgetting Sarah Marshall, for all its tortured breakup hardships and indecent exposures, makes us laugh long and hard enough... read on»

By Dan Hudak posted April 17, 2008 12:00 AM

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Morgan Spurlock takes a wild swing at the War on Terror.

The same personal, quippy filmmaking that made Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me such a breezy delight all but dooms his second feature-length effort, Where in the World Is Osama bin... read on»

By David Lee Simmons posted April 17, 2008 12:00 AM

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The recent winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year revisits the holocaust with fresh eyes.

Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch bears little resemblance to the innocent, law-abiding victim in most Holocaust movies. Indeed, with his prominent jaw, compact but wiry frame, and furtive eyes, Sally looks more... read on»

By Kelly Vance posted April 10, 2008 12:00 AM

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Smart People’s great cast punctures the world of academia.

Intelligence runs in the Wetherhold family DNA. Smart People’s curmudgeonly protagonist, Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), indifferently teaches literature at Carnegie Mellon University, where his bright son (Ashton Holmes) is a... read on»

By Curt Holman posted April 10, 2008 12:00 AM

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Director George Clooney is not afraid to poke fun at himself in the football farce Leatherheads.

George Clooney’s 1920s football comedy Leatherheads – his third film as a director – sums up the modern-day matinee idol’s attitude toward his own fame. Clooney plays Dodge Connelly, the... read on»

By Curt Holman posted April 03, 2008 12:00 AM

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Lovely storytelling gives way to terminal despair in Snow Angels.

Near the beginning and the end of writer/director David Gordon Green’s Snow Angels, he features an identical montage of small-town Northeastern everyday life – provided “everyday” takes place in the... read on»

By Scott Renshaw posted April 03, 2008 12:00 AM

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