Melissa McCarthy is always hilarious, but in “Tammy,” which she co-wrote as well as starred in, she also delivers a strong message. It’s like that moment in “Bridesmaids” when she repeatedly...
It’s simply not a real Thanksgiving unless Charlie Brown takes a few running kicks at the football and then goes over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house. I will never, ever grow...
The lights are dimmed, candles are lit and my family crowds around me, waiting for the cue to start singing. It’s the usual birthday scene — my little sisters giggle at the end of the table as I sit...
Emma Stone is perfect. OK, she’s always perfect, but she’s even more perfect in “The Help.” Stone plays Skeeter, a 23-year-old who just finished college with a journalism degree from Ole Miss....
In honor of Veterans Day, I’m highlighting a movie that’s still in theaters because, well, it’s worth going to see. “Fury,” Brad Pitt’s latest flick, follows a five-man crew in a Sherman tank...
There are two things you should know about me: I have an unhealthy love for Mark Wahlberg, and I get really, really emotionally invested in action films. Like jumping out of my seat, sweating, crying,...
I finally saw “Gone Girl” this week, and it reminded me of another favorite film adaption of a novel, “My Sister’s Keeper.” Jodi Picoult’s popular book hit the big screen in 2009 starring Abigail...
Don’t scoff — this movie is awesome. Actually, everything is awesome. It’s literally the movie’s theme song: “Everything Is Awesome,” and it will be stuck in your head for days.Emmet is an...
Angelina Jolie stars in this drama, based on a true story and set during the late 1920s in Los Angeles. When Christine Collin’s son, Walter, goes missing the LAPD set up a search for the boy. Five months...
My roommates wasted no time decorating our house for Halloween. On the first official day of fall, we had cobwebs strewn across our bushes, a grim reaper hanging from our porch and black lights above our...
It turns out Shailene Woodley can do more than play a frail girl with cancer, as she did in “The Fault in Our Stars.” It’s hard to see past that, though, when this movie opens with her and her brother...
My first impression of this movie went something along the lines of, “Ew, look at Joaquin Phoenix’s pedophile stash,” and, “These guys sitting around talking to their computers are in need of social...
