"I serve society by rocking," explains Dewey Finn (Jack Black).That excuse doesn't exactly sit well with Dewey's roommate Ned (MikeWhite) or his friend's harpy-like girlfriend Patty (Sarah Silverman).Dewey has been sponging off the pair for months, possibly years,while trying to make it big ...
Los Angeles - Some actors were born to play a role.Jack Black seems like he was genetically designed by a team ofhilariously evil scientists to star in "School of Rock.""A lot of actors want to stretch and find parts that are further awayfrom themselves," Black says. "They want to do someone ...
The premise is simple enough: Vampires battle werewolves in amodern-day setting.Yet the result is a disarmingly complicated story that grows weirderas it progresses. "Underworld" is neither scary nor particularlyexciting - somewhat of a drawback for a monster movie - but there'ssomething ...
"One, two, three ..."It's a familiar ritual for Roy (Nicolas Cage), whether he isunlocking a door three times or performing most other routine tasksthat he must approach with a pacifying repetition in order to getthrough the day.Roy is saddled with an obsessive-compulsive disorder ...
Nobody oozes insincerity quite like David Spade. Thecomedian-turned-film star has made a career of delivering sarcasticbarbs with a painted-on smile.What better person to portray the fictional Dickie Roberts?In this lampoon of Hollywood celebrity, Spade plays Roberts, a30-something actor trying ...
The one vivid memory I have about the ABC show "S.W.A.T." was its theme song. The groovy, brass-driven instrumental became a pre-disco hit in 1975, joining the era's "Barney Miller" and "The Rockford Files" as the hippest of TV's title compositions.After 28 years, that's the only thing I recall ...
You would think that Jim Levinstein (Jason Biggs) would behumiliation-proof by now.On his way to sexual enlightenment, he's suffered about as much asone Jewish kid from Michigan can."These things KEEP happening to me," he says in "American Wedding,"resigned to the mounting indignities.What's ...
Hollywood's most overexposed couple are now responsible for makingthe most underdeveloped movie in recent memory.How bad is "Gigli?"Ah, where to begin ...If the idea of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez playing hired hoodlumsisn't already enough to elicit an aneurysm, how about making ...
A sequel to "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" had nowhere to go but up.The 2001 summer blockbuster that served as a launching pad for thisseries was the cinematic equivalent of watching someone else play avideo game for two hours. The acrobatic Lara (Angelina Jolie) spenther screen time trouncing ...
There's a laundry list of professional and personalbaggage that tag along with Angelina Jolie.She sleeps with knives; kept husband Billy Bob Thornton's blood in avial around her neck; has that "weird" relationship with her brotherJames, etc.Then there's the ongoing feud with her Academy ...