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Home (Re)Viewing: Fluffy films
It’s funny how time works. Just as the big summer films start to arrive, the DVD releases cycle around to the not-so-big movies that came out at the beginning of the year. Thankfully, this week’s crop isn’t half bad.
Because I Said So: Mandy Moore butts heads with her well-meaning but overbearing mom, Diane Keaton, who tries to set her up with one man when another is already interested in her. Much of the humor is way too broad and obvious, but the considerable appeal of Moore and Keaton salvages the movie. Piper Perabo and Lauren Graham are also fun to watch as Moore’s sisters. Original review GRADE: B-
Music and Lyrics: Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore make for a winning couple in this lightweight but clever confection. He plays a former teen idol, she plays a lovelorn woman who happens to have a knack for lyrics. Besides the two leads, the movie also benefits from some terrific songs, most of them penned by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne. He also wrote the title tune to That Thing You Do, which, as it happens, comes out in an expanded DVD today. Original review. GRADE: B
Also out today
Catch and Release: The title pretty well describes how the release went. A few people caught it the first week and everybody released it the next. The buzz on this one wasn’t terrible, especially for a January movie, but it sounds like one of those movies you catch when there’s nothing better on.
Deliver Us from Evil: Who was the most evil figure in all of movies last year? According to most critics, it wasn’t Davy Jones of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest or even Jack Nicholson in The Departed, but Father Oliver O’Grady. This film chronicles the crimes of the pedophile, who apparently shows no remorse whatsoever. It sounds chilling by the description alone - I can’t help but wonder what the movie must be like.
The Painted Veil: Naomi Watts and Edward Norton play a husband and wife in a loveless marriage who discover a spark after a mission to China, where an epidemic is raging. The trailer made it look a little too stately for my taste, but it went over quite well with area audiences.
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