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RomCom 101
Just Like Heaven serves as a case study for the romantic comedy formula.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Waters, Just Like Heaven
Now a Major Motion Picture
A critic previews fall movies through the literature that inspired them.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-07-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Various Titles
Spout at the Devil
Random observations on the randomly constructed silliness of The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Third Whirled
Despite noble intentions, The Constant Gardener eventually starts running in circles.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-23-2005 |
Reviews
Sometimes a Fantasy
Terry Gilliam comfortably treads familiar surreal ground in The Brothers Grimm.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Grimm
Plane and Simple
Wes Craven's Red Eye offers a lesson in making a taut, efficient thriller.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Wes Craven, Red Eye
Keepin’ It Unreal
A sibling story dissolves into clichés in the urban drama Four Brothers.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-02-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Four Brothers, John Singleton
Yee-Huh?
The Dukes of Hazzard will try anything to be an amiable time-waster.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-02-2005 |
Reviews
The Break Fist Club
The spirit of John Hughes energizes the hero high school romp Sky High.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Mitchell, Sky High
Crock of the Bay
American cinema’s poster boy for excess blows up The Island.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Bay, The Island
Hauteur Theory
Because he can’t get over himself, Tim Burton squeezes himself into Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-12-2005 |
Reviews
Meanwhile, Back at the Raunch
Wedding Crashers recalls a golden era of unapologetic crude comedy -- at least for a while.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers
Space Invaders
Post-9/11 allegory wrestles with blockbuster action in War of the Worlds
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-28-2005 |
Reviews
Bothered and Bewildered
Why bury Will Ferrell’s comic brilliance just so the movie can be called Bewitched?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nora Ephron, Bewitched
Another Brick at the Wal
The United States of Wal-Mart takes frisky shots at the retail monolith.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-10-2005 |
Nonfiction
