A half-baked rock'n'roll fable. Star-struck teenager Flanagan quits her job and flies to England with retired dumbfound star Dylan. Together, they are whisked off to a country home pulling by heighten but jaded cola incomparable Everett, and Flanagan launches herself into the recording of her debut album, while Everett recovers his commotion-composition ability. Nothing much [...]

Cube makes comedies for an urban audience, mixing outrageous humor with
stories about fellows of modest means looking for the pot of gold at the end
of the rainbow. Sometimes Cube writes the screenplay. In "Barbershop" he just
stars, but it's very much in the genre of Cube's homegrown efforts, "Friday"
and "Next Friday."

That Ice Cube should have found [...]

It had been a hanker 20 years since George Romero's "Hour of the Dead" snored its way across screens worldwide. Just now something of a paragon in 2005, "Day" is a pretty weighty zombie murkiness. Romero had wanted to make a much bigger budgeted film as his follow up to the mega-model "Dawn of the [...]

NEW ORLEANS
(director:
Arthur Lubin; screenwriters: Elliot Paul and Dick Irving Hyland/ story
by Herbert Biberman and Elliot Paul; cinematographer: Lucien N. Andriot;
managing editor: Bernard W. Burton; music: Bob Carleton; cast: Dorothy Patrick (Miralee
Smith), Arturo de Cordova (Nick Duquesne), John Alexander (Col. McArdle),
Irene Rich (Mrs. Rutledge Smith), Louis Armstrong (Himself), Marjorie Lord
(Grace Volselle), Billie Holiday (Endie), Richard Hageman [...]

Enjoyable And Stunning (R)

I can't help but pity the timing of Nicole Holofcener's

Lovely and Amazing,

arriving on the heels of such other populous character studies as

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

and

Full Frontal.

It's easily as good as the former, better than the latter, and more quirkily honest than both. Unlike

Thirteen Conversations,

Lovely and Amazing

is truly about the characters, instead [...]