“Without a Paddle” (PG-13)
Who's in it: Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Abraham Benrubi, Rachel Blanchard What's it about: Three guys go into the Oregon wilderness in search of lost treasure, but everything...
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Sold on Waters
John Waters wasn't the most anxious person at last night's premiere of his new movie, the NC-17-rated A Dirty Shame. His father was. "I'm waiting very nervously," John Waters Sr....
Director’s fans will find joy in having ‘Shame’
Every once in a while, the complaints start. John Waters, his longtime fans will groan, is going mainstream. If A Dirty Shame is mainstream cinema, then heaven help the rest...
NC-17 rating fails to vex Waters
John Waters must be one of the few film directors who can shrug when their work is declared off-limits to a significant portion of the movie-going population. "If anyone can...
“Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” (PG-13)
Who's in it: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Jason Bateman, Rip Torn What it's about: A small local gym is threatened with extinction by a gleaming fitness palace unless...
The ‘Friends’ effect
It may have been the most aptly named sitcom ever. When Friends airs its last original episode tonight at 8, a particularly warm relationship of some 10 years' standing between...
Movies to drive you a little buggy
For a little bug that becomes a national obsession every 17 years, the cicada hasn't left much of an impression on America's movie screens. That's assuredly strange, given Hollywood's predilection...
King of the Oscars
LOS ANGELES -- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King journeyed to history last night, winning all 11 of the Academy Awards for which it was nominated...
Classic come-ons from the movies
On this Oscar day, you guys probably won't have time to track down the flash cards compiled by Turner Classic Movies and Chronicle Books. The "Famous Pick-Up Lines" cards ($12.95)...
Baltimore's reel men
These guys hail from the same city? Barry Levinson, 61, makes gently pointed comedies about growing up, about camaraderie and family and finding one's foothold in the world. He's a...