Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) freaks out while meeting her hero, newsman Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), in the comedy “Morning Glory.” Roger Michell’s comedy “Morning Glory” could have easily assessed what’s happened to America’s TV news since James L. Brooks’ 1987 masterpiece “Broadcast News” showed us a trio of reporters so busy with their professional lives […]
Monthly Archives: November 2010
‘Fair Game’ much more than anti-Bush tirade
Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) and wife Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) share one of many tense moments in “Fair Game,” a fact-based domestic thriller. Consider this a “family first” film. If Doug Liman’s fact-based “Fair Game” had been just another political tirade against the Bush administration for outting CIA agent Valerie Plame, it would be old […]
Perry blunts powerful ‘For Colored Girls’
Tangie (Thandie Newton), left, and her mother Alice (Whoopi Goldberg) squabble about her morals in Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls.” When a Tyler Perry movie actually gets screened for critics, you know it must be something special. “For Colored Girls” is special, especially for a Tyler Perry movie. It offers a sterling cast of actresses […]
‘Megamind’ blends farce and fantasy
TV reporter Roxanne Ritchi (voiced by Tina Fey) gets fake-tortured by the villainous Megamind (voiced by Will Ferrell) in the 3-D animated action-comedy “Megamind.” “Megamind” is both farce and fantasy, a vivid 3-D animated comedy filled with zany characters, switched identities, reversing roles and surprise plot entanglements. Then come the standard jokey pop culture references […]
‘Due Date’ delivers crass comedy, kooky characters
Peter (Robert Downey Jr.) tries to take the wheel from a sleeping Ethan (Zach Galifianakis) in the buddy/road comedy “Due Date.” Call it “Planes, Trains and Automobiles — Without the Planes and Trains.” “Due Date” stars Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis as two clashing, feuding strangers who share a small car during a road […]