I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t narrow this list down to just ten. It was just too hard a mission this year-  there are a lot of films that qualify as chick flicks at TIFF 2012, and a lot of them are no doubt coming soon to a theatre near you.  So while we await our bumper crop...

Enough with the gender studies essays on Kristen Stewart, I beg of you. There has been no escaping the latest brouhaha as reports surfaced that Kristen Stewart will not be appearing in Universal’s next Snow White and the Huntsman installment, and that Rupert Sanders most probably will...

  The first thing I noticed when I saw the trailer for “People Like Us” was the amazing chemistry between Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks, which would be great if this was a rom com, but it isn’t.  This is a film about siblings- a brother and a sister, only she...

That’s your problem! You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.  – ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ Nora Ephron hated the term “chick flick” per Pete Hammond at Deadline (click here for that great memorium)  but I don’t think she...

Forget the rom com, the “advice com” is where Hollywood’s creative inspiration lies these days.  The formula is simple- take a tried and true advice book and adapt it for the big screen with a large ensemble cast and romantic underpinnings. No advice book is too unadaptable...

This was supposed to be a positive review of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, but a funny thing happened on the way to posting. The first box office projections started coming in and I found myself enthralled by the widely diverging fates for Friend and Pixar’s Brave, the two...

Brave is a big surprise.  The Pixar produced and Disney distributed film is a story about mothers and daughters.  There is no Handsome Prince, but there is a Princess, a Queen, magic and a pesky witch.  Oh and some bears. Pixar films are technically wondrous but can lack the warmth of the...

I really wanted to like Rock of Ages- and that might be the problem.   Tom Cruise, 80s Rock, REO Speedwagon?  I was so there.  But that Juliana Hough person ruined the whole damn movie along with her accomplice- the playback chick who does Britney Spears’ auto-tuned singing. Tom...

The Ballad of Danko Jones The Diamond Brothers directed the “Below the Belt” music video trilogy for Danko Jones, and then re-purposed that footage to create this short film.  Ralph Macchio and Elijah Wood as the bad guys.  Plus Selma Blair, Lemmy Kilmister, Mike Watt, Don...