Jennifer’s Body: Unrated

There is a scene in Juno (2007) where two characters argue about who makes gorier horror films, Herschell Gordon Lewis or Dario Argento. The film was written by Diablo Cody and she went on to win an Academy Award for her screenplay full of witty, stylized... 

The Ten

Since The State broke up in 1995, fans of MTV’s answer to Saturday Night Live have been hoping for a reunion and the group has come close with Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and now The Ten (2007), a satire of the Ten Commandments. Imagine Krzysztof... 

Thank You For Smoking

As more and more cities, states and countries ban smoking in public places (Philadelphia has been one of the latest) and the government tries to make us more conscious of our health, the more pressure is on the tobacco companies to find other, creative... 

Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Unrated

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) is one of those critic-proof movies. It’s a big, loud action movie starring two of the biggest movie stars on the planet – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Both, incidentally, were in need of a box office hit as Pitt was coming... 

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

You can see why the tabloids had a field day over the “alleged” romance between Pitt and Jolie. Their chemistry in Mr. and Mrs. Smith is nothing short of electric. It’s sad then that the focus was on their private lives rather than the film...