Mean Girls
After being raised in Africa, 16-year-old Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) moves home to Illinois with her family and goes to high school for the first time in her life; she…
For Your Consideration
When veteran actors Marilyn Hack and Victor Alan Miller (Catherine O’Hara, Harry Shearer) are working on a movie together, they learn that their performances are generating Oscar buzz for the…
The Stepford Wives
Cynical TV producer Joanna Eberhardt (Nicole Kidman) moves away from New York with husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) and settles down in a small town where every woman seems to come…
M*A*S*H: The 11-Year War
Photo: CBS One of the best-loved television shows ever, its 1983 finale, a two-and-a-half hour episode, was truly a national event. No other single program has ever attracted that large…
Will & Grace: A Lovably Gay Agenda
Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally. Photo: NBC A part of me wants to talk only about this show as just another one of those fine sitcoms…
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
As Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) waits for the all-important Christmas bonus, he starts planning for the best Christmas ever with his family. Of course, disaster looms in this third chapter…
Home Alone: Christmas with a Kick
Macaulay Culkin. Photo: 20th Century Fox I love everything about Christmas. Most people would pick It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) as their favorite Yuletide-themed film, and it certainly is a…
Vegas Vacation
The Griswolds go to Las Vegas on vacation, but Clark and Ellen's (Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo) marriage hits a few bumps and cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) shows up to cause…
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) goes to Washington to work for Congresswoman Victoria Rudd (Sally Field); her aim is to introduce a bill to ban animal testing. A sequel we could…
Borat: Wrestling with Stupidity
Sacha Baron Cohen. Photo: 20th Century Fox The film begins as a grainy old infomercial produced by the government of Kazakhstan, featuring Kazakh television’s greatest star, Borat Sagdiyev, as he…