By Rex Reed 10/02/12 7:58pm

movies

Garner in Butter.

Spread Thin: Jason Micallef’s Script is Blue-Ribbon Worthy, but Jim Field Smith’s Overcooked Butter Is a Mess

Butter hasn’t had this much attention on the screen since Marlon Brando thought up new X-rated things to do with dairy products in Last Tango in Paris. No artery clogging to fear in the clumsy, uneven farce called Butter either. Like The Oranges, it first appeared a year ago, at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, and it’s been on the shelf ever since, yellowing with age until it looks more like margarine.

The first hour of Butter is funny, irreverent and full of satirical promise about America’s obsession with greed and competition. The targets of its parody are often more vulgar than clever, but before it eventually falls apart and hits the frying pan, it paints a picture of American home economics that is occasionally hilarious. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 7/14/11 4:59pm

fiction

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The Fictional Magazine Power List

2003: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: Kate Hudson plays a beautiful reporter for a lightly fictionalized Cosmopolitan called Composure.

2004: 13 Going on 30: Jennifer Garner plays a beautiful editor at a lightly fictionized, let’s say Elle, called Poise.

2006: The Devil Wears Prada: Meryl Streep plays the imperious editor of a Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 4/28/09 5:37pm

Sara Vilkomerson’s Third Stringer: Cute Overload!

Here’s a question we found ourselves pondering while watching Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: If Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner were a real-life couple and then they had a baby, would its entire face be one giant dimple? ’Cause we’re telling you, the dimple action in this movie between the two comely stars is downright distracting! Read More

By Christopher Rosen 4/16/09 12:40pm

Single Person’s Movie: 13 Going on 30

It’s 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you’ve already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we’re just like you: single.

Need a movie to keep Read More

By Irina Aleksander 8/20/08 7:29pm

Angelina Jolie’s Makeup Artist Found Dead

Paul Starr, a makeup artist to celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Garner, was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment yesterday, according to Metro UK.

While the cause of Mr. Starr’s death is still undetermined, his friends said that they hadn’t seen or heard from Mr. Starr in several days. Read More