The ridiculous name of this Hong Kong Category III movie is diminished by the spectacularly poor production and acting, so awful that it manages to reach a level of simple enjoyment. This is Cat III and “My Horny Girlfriend” goes for the below the belt shot Grace Lam is the lead actress, who, after sleeping […]
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The story of Bridget Jones’s Diary tracks our title character during the 32nd year of her life, one dominated by menial work, too much drinking/smoking/eating, and most notably, the lack of a meaningful relationship. Renée Zellweger has clearly and bravely gained the 20 requisite pounds to play the chubby-cheeked Bridget, who repeated resolves to get
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Renée Zellweger has lost all 25 pounds of her Bridget Jones weight, vamped her way through Chicago, chunked up again for Cold Mountain, waifed away for Down with Love, and finally put all that weight back on for her long-awaited return to the role of an insecure Brit one which she swore she’d never perform
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More than a decade after Steve Martin lost control of his own home in Housesitter, another of his patented Poor Sap characters is in similar trouble. This time, instead of a spunky, conniving Goldie Hawn acting as unwanted tenant, a sassy, street-smart, badass Queen Latifah is movin’ on up. Thankfully, Martin and Latifah make for
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When a movie opens on a teenager’s repeated attempts to kill herself, well, you know we’re in for some wild comedy! A darkly black comedy of the trailer trash variety, Waking Up in Reno director Jordan Brady mostly misses with this study of working class malaise, the prison system, teen pregnancy, and closeted homosexuality. Well,
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If you’re a fan of Lindsay Lohan (and God knows why you wouldn’t be), the burgeoning teenage sex symbol, then drop whatever you’re doing and go see Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. She’s in practically every second of the movie wearing an array of flimsy dresses, belly shirts, and tight pants. However, if you’re
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It is virtually impossible to separate Cleopatra the movie from Cleopatra the spectacle and that’s because they are truly and rarely intertwined. A legend of Hollywood, the 1963 production of Cleopatra has so much curiosity surrounding it I hardly know where to start. It was budgeted at $2 million and eventually cost (up to) $44
In many ways “Dogs in Space” is the archetypal 1980s Australian film. It’s full of confidence and clever innovation, but is hampered by a lacklustre script and a style of production dissonant with the material it covers. Produced in 1986, it actually looks at Melbourne eight years earlier, when the city’s punk scene was at
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I scarcely know where to start writing about Apollo 13, the long awaited story of the catastrophic 13th mission of the Apollo space program. I went in expecting a whole lot from Howard and his star studded cast (Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton), and they delivered in full, the
It would be a hard heart indeed that couldn’t find a bit of affection for a movie that starts with two black police officers going undercover at a Klan rally and ends with what appears to be an invasion of Cuba. That movie, Bad Boys II, which comes raging into summertime theaters still woozy from
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