Movie Review: Title is all that’s clever in the hackneyed romantic comedy ‘My Life in Ruins’LOS ANGELES — As we learn from “My Life in Ruins,” the Greek word for mojo — or zest for life — is “kefi.” Nia Vardalos’ character has lost hers and needs to get it back. Movie Review: ‘The Hangover’ offers inspired absuridity for a while, until it wears offLOS ANGELES — You’d be forgiven for thinking “The Hangover” is a documentary. Berlusconi slams paparazzi, laments his personal saga is playing out on newspaper front pagesROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi slammed the paparazzi Sunday for taking photos of a New Year’s party at his Sardinian home that was attended by an 18-year-old at the heart of a political and personal storm. Coppola clan provides inspiration for director’s family-rivalry drama ‘Tetro’CANNES, France — Rivalries are inevitable in a family as big and talented as Francis Ford Coppola’s, with so many siblings and cousins and uncles working in film and music. Movie Review: With visual flair and heart, ‘The Brothers Bloom’ is a blast of a con-man comedyLOS ANGELES — With his 2006 debut “Brick,” writer-director Rian Johnson had the vision and ambition to make a film noir set at a California high school. In new book, Polish priest says steamy sex life brings married couples closer to GodWARSAW, Poland — The Rev. Ksawery Knotz has a message for all married Catholic couples out there: there’s nothing wrong with a steamy sex life. Movie Review: Contrived romantic comedy ‘Management’ heavy on quirk at expense of characterLOS ANGELES — It’s easy to forget that Jennifer Aniston truly can act. Movie Review: ‘Angels & Demons’ more entertaining than ‘Da Vinci Code,’ but just as ridiculousLOS ANGELES — Blessedly, “Angels & Demons” is more entertaining and less self-serious than its predecessor, the dense and dreary yet enormously successful “The Da Vinci Code.” Movie Review: ‘Rudo y Cursi’ kicks new life into old sports-movie clichesLOS ANGELES — “Rudo y Cursi” is enormously hackneyed in concept yet surprisingly enjoyable in execution, thanks to some amusing, surreal details and the genuine camaraderie of Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal. Movie Review: Painfully clunky romance ‘Love n’ Dancing’ isn’t too light on its feetLOS ANGELES — The most astounding move in “Love n’ Dancing” doesn’t occur on the dance floor. Rather, it’s the fact that this movie is appearing in theaters at all, and not going straight to cable where it belongs. Movie Review: Tilda Swinton gives a riveting performance as a desperate drunk in ‘Julia’LOS ANGELES — “Julia” requires an enormous amount of its star, and of its audience. Visitors can see Poplar Forest, Jefferson’s plantation retreat, as he originally designed itFOREST, Va. — Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest plantation retreat has unveiled its $6 million, 20-year architectural restoration to the third president’s original vision as a private place to read, think and spend time with his grandchildren after he retired. |