March, 2009

Wine lovers the world over savoured the smooth ambrosial textures of Sideways (2004), many a palette pleased by Alexander Payne’s low-key direction and the quaint story of two buddies embarking on a weeklong tour of California’s wine country. Winos no doubt hoped Sideways would pop the cork of a new genre of stories from the [...]

I remember scoffing loudly at multiple points during the trailer for Paul Blart: Mall Cop, my cinematic palette violently rejecting those obtuse early glimpses of the new movie by Daddy Day Care director Steve Carr – a comedy about a fat hypoglycaemic security guard whose mall is overtaken by a group of highly coordinated gun-toting [...]

In director P.J. Hogan’s frothy romantic comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic, Isla Fisher stars as a ditzy spendthrift who maxes out her credit card, plummets into debt and then slowly learns to become an economically responsible person. The movie’s consumerist themes are topical, which means it’s like totally happening now and stuff. Hollywood lecturing audiences [...]