James Scarborough
( top )Just Humor Me: "My Sister's Keeper"
Can an eleven-year-old girl, even one as insanely precocious as Abigail Breslin’s Anna Fitzgerald, sue her parents for the medical rights to her body?
Read More... Monday, June 29, 2009 9:29 AM PDTJust Humor Me: "My Life in Ruins"
Directed by Donald Petrie, written by Mike Reiss
Read More... Monday, June 29, 2009 9:29 AM PDTJust Humor Me: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"
Directed by Michael Bay, written by Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman
Read More... Monday, June 29, 2009 9:29 AM PDTJust Humor Me:
At one point in the comic drama “Away We Go,” directed by Sam Mendes, written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, screened at the Art Theatre, a pregnant Verona De Tessant (Maya Rudolph) asks her boyfriend Burt Farlander (John Krasinski) if they’re fuck-ups.
Read More... Monday, June 29, 2009 9:29 AM PDTJust Humor Me: "The Proposal"
Wags proclaim that opposites attract.
Read More... Monday, June 22, 2009 9:26 AM PDTJust Humor Me: "Year One"
On paper, Jack Black and Michael Cera seem like the perfect match to play cavemen who embark on an odyssey through ancient history.
Read More... Monday, June 22, 2009 9:26 AM PDTJust Humor Me: "Imagine That"
Any actor, much less a child actor, that can hold her own and, at times upstage Eddie Murphy, has got to be one special little girl.
Read More... Monday, June 22, 2009 9:26 AM PDTJust Humor Me: "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3"
The spine-tingler thriller “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3,” directed by Tony Scott, written by Brian Helgeland and John Godey works because the movie’s drama is our drama.
Read More... Monday, June 22, 2009 9:26 AM PDTJust Humor Me: "Easy Virtue"
I can’t evaluate her patriotism but Jessica Biel, as Larita Whittaker, a Roaring Twenties race car driver who makes a splash across the pond as a round peg in an English family’s square hole in The Art Theatre's “Easy Virtue,” directed by Stephan Elliott, written by Elliott, Sheridan Jobbins, based on the play by Noel Coward, is a good American.
Read More... Monday, June 22, 2009 9:26 AM PDTJust Humor Me: "Obsessed"
By most accounts, Calvin Klein’s Obsession perfume suggests romantic intensity and smells good.
Read More... Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:16 PM PDTJust Humor Me:
“The Hangover,” directed by Todd Phillips, written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, should come with the following warning: Kids, these are trained professionals. Do not attempt this on your own.
Read More... Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:16 PM PDT