Movie Reviews

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Packed with good-natured vulgarity and juvenile stupidity, the new comedy Step Brothers is like some perverted "Leave It to Beaver" episode. This free-wheeling parody of blended families…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT It’s safe to say that although it might give it a healthy run for its box office money, the new family adventure Journey to the Center of…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT He’s got a temper; he loves beer, candy, kittens and Liz, his wife; and, he’s horny (although he keeps them shaved down to big stubs). Director Guillermo…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT As far as product tie-ins, I can’t see a plushy that really works, based on the adorable mechanized hero of Disney/Pixar’s fabulous new film, "Wall-E;" but it…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT It’s a toss-up which is bigger on Wesley Gibson’s back---the yellow streak or the sign that says, "Kick Me." Forget the poor guy who got sand kicked…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT When you’ve got the current big cheese of comedy, Steve Carell, as your leading man and consulting work from comedy writing legends Buck Henry and Mel Brooks,…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Terrorism takes a back seat to the natural world fighting back against the destruction brought by human exploitation of the environment in M. Night Shyamalan’s sniggeringly dull…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Kung Fu Panda represents a first in at least one area: the big screen’s first animated comedy martial arts movie. It has set the bar high and…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT They say you can’t step into the same river twice. But, apparently, in the romantic comedy "Sex in the City" you can drive into the same traffic…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Dragged out of the trunk of a car and hurled onto the hard sand of the Nevada desert, he hauls himself upright, nonchalantly smooths the dent out…