This is a short primer for Tyler Perry's most recent dram/comedy I Can Do Bad All By Myself. The movie comes out to a theater near you on September 11th. The trailer can be found at http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/icandobadallbymyself/ The Plot: When Madea, by now a pop culture icon, finds three kids in her home trying to…
After being on her feet at work over a 6-day stretch, my wife and I decided to take most of Sunday off and, as part of that, found ourselves watching a mid-afternoon movie while the kids were occupied with something else. We had originally had planned on watching an independent thriller. But, 15 minutes into…
According to the blurb on the box, director Susan Seidelman's 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan is about a simple, presumably comic case of mistaken identity. Rosanna Arquette's character Roberta, a New Jersey housewife, gets hit on the head, develops amnesia, and is mistaken for "free spirit" Susan, played by Madonna. What the blurb doesn't intimate,…
Stretch Armstrong first came out as a toy in 1976. Made by Kenner (now owned by Hasbro). A ripped blonde guy in a pair of black swimming trunks, his arms and legs were rubber and filled with gel so that they could literally be stretched to extraordinary lengths. If this sounds to you like Mr….
Down in the Valley is the kind of movie I'd like to like, but I don't. It seems like a good premise: we've got Edward Norton playing a character with a slightly skewed perspective on reality. That kind of mindset spawned Fight Club and American History X, arguably some of Norton's best work. It doesn't…
Today I got a hold of Disney's "Tuck Everlasting" movie, the 2002 adaptation of the Natalie Babbitt novel. Oddly enough, before tonight I had only seen the much older adaptation of the novel. I wanted to preview the movie before we watch it as a class next week, and I have to say I thoroughly…
Wikipedia sources say: "La Cage aux Folles" is a play by the French playwright Jean Poiret. The play was turned into a French film in 1978. The Americanized version "The Birdcage" (La Cage aux Folles) starting Robin Williams and Nathan Lane came out in 1996, and became an instant comedy hit. Val Goldman (Dan Futterman)…
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a famous movie producer? With The Movies, a new game released by Activision, players experience what it is like to run a multi-million dollar studio, answer the demands of celebrities, build a movie empire from the ground up, and deal with everything else a "real" Hollywood producer deals with….
