By Drew Grant 4/03/12 6:14pm

movies

Carrie-MacLemore, Greta-Gerwig, and Megalyn-Echikunwoke in 'Damsels in Distress'

Knights-Errant Steer Clear in Damsels in Distress

It would be easy to compare Whit Stillman’s latest feature, Damsels in Distress, to other flicks about the dangers of female friendship: It’s Heathers without high school, or Mean Girls at college. After all, the movie begins with young, brunette ingénue Lily (Analeigh Tipton) during her first day at Seven Oaks College, being swooped in on by a pack of three severely affected juniors who immediately offer her friendship. Greta Gerwig is the blonde queen bee, Violet, and her two cohorts include the British Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and the ditzy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). These three are seemingly on a mission of good: they run the school’s suicide-prevention center and spend most of their time “helping” the brothers of D.U., one of the school’s Roman (not Greek) fraternity houses. Read More

By Rex Reed 9/08/10 2:49am

What’s Romantic About a Bad Movie?

Hard to know what to make of a hack job called The Romantics. Seven postgrad friends dedicating their lives to the question “Is there life after campus sex?” gather on a weekend near the sea for the wedding of two of their most popular pals. Since the bride (Anna Paquin) and her sister, who is Read More

By Rex Reed 7/14/09 11:33pm

Welcome to Dysfunction Junction

Death in Love
Running time 97 minutes
Written and directed by
Boaz Yakin
Starring  Josh Lucas, Jacqueline Bisset, Lukas Haas, Adam Brody

Death in Love is a grim, crestfallen and downright depressing sexual psychodrama about a New York family that is not only dysfunctional but self-destructive beyond hope. Read More

By Christopher Rosen 8/25/08 2:46pm

Didn’t ‘Ryan from The O.C.’ Deserve a Career?

Poor Ben McKenzie. He was always one of our favorites on The O.C.; his faux-Russell Crowe looks and constant furrowed brow made you think that he was a dour and brooding capital-A actor. But some of the funniest moments that show had to offer came from Mr. McKenzie’s interplay with Adam Brody. While Mr. Brody’s Read More

By admin 4/18/07 3:46pm

Women Works

IN THE LAND OF WOMEN
Running time 97 minutes
Written and Directed by Jonathan Kasdan
Starring Adam Brody and Meg Ryan

 

Thank God a few directors are still interested in exploring the heartbreaking journeys of ordinary people dealing with small issues that are universal. In the Land of Read More