Inquirer Columnist - Carrie RickeyRSS Feed for Inq Col Carrie RickeyThis 'Bunny' trips over its own tale- September 17, 2008 You may not immediately place the names of Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, but the screenwriters are the Shakespeares of American movie comedy.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/carrie_rickey/20080822_This__Bunny__trips_over_i... Musical 'Hamlet': Tee-hee or not tee-hee- September 17, 2008 Dana Marschz, a no-talent actor, is a textbook example of the saw "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach." At Tucson's West Mesa High, Dana's drama-class adaptations of inspirational movies are less distinguished even than his wincingly bad turns in infomercials.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/carrie_rickey/20080822_Musical__Hamlet___Tee-hee... Cheadle electrifies but movie shorts- September 17, 2008 Don Cheadle, wiry and wired, delivers an electrifying performance in Traitor as Samir Horn, a devout Muslim born in Sudan, raised in the United States, and apprehended in Yemen while selling explosives to Islamist militants.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/carrie_rickey/20080827_Cheadle_electrifies_but_m... No secrets, simply a time line- September 17, 2008 Darby Crash (1958-80) was a lightning bolt in leather, a poet and musician with a taste for self-promotion and self-mutilation.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/carrie_rickey/20080829_No_secrets__simply_a_time... Obama's biopic: Low-key and unslick- September 17, 2008 As the appetizer to Barack Obama's acceptance speech last night, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim offered a film portrait of the fatherless son and self-made Everyman who couldn't be farther from the fortunate son now occupying the White House.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/carrie_rickey/20080829_Obama_s_biopic__Low-key_a... The lush memories of a libertine imp- (Found September 17, 2008 ) The puckish Jan Dite, whose surname means "child" in Czech, is a slapstick imp out of a Charlie Chaplin comedy. In 1930s Prague, the modest hot dog vendor dreams - immodestly, perhaps absurdly - of becoming a millionaire.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/carrie_rickey/20080905_The_lush_memories_of_a_li... 'The Women' of today: Softer- (Found September 17, 2008 ) In 1936 when The Women bounded onto Broadway, Clare Boothe Luce's merciless suggestion that the parlors of Park Avenue are kennels for female dogs struck one observer as so acidic that it "could turn litmus paper pink."http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/carrie_rickey/20080912__The_Women__of_today__Sof... Despite Pacino and De Niro, "Kill" is no thrill"- (Found September 17, 2008 ) Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. There are at least 13 ways of looking at these blackbirds. They are, indelibly, the young Vito Corleone and Michael Corleone, the seasoned faces of American conflict and compromise and the most authoritative actors of their generation. If there were a Mount Rushmore of actors, surely their profiles would be chiseled in granite next to those of Marlon Brando and Jimmy Stewart.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/carrie_rickey/20080912_Despite_Pacino_and_De_Nir... The Family That Preys (Out of four stars)- (Found September 17, 2008 ) Written and directed by Tyler Perry. With Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan and Cole Hauser. Distributed by Lionsgate.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/carrie_rickey/20080913_The_Family_That_Preys____... Perry goes for the melodrama- (Found September 17, 2008 ) Defiantly old-school, undeniably entertaining, Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys is a shiny, two-timing throwback to 1950s melodramas like Giant, those wellsprings of such prime-time soaps as Dallas and Dynasty. The writerdirectoractor, who has a supporting role as a hardhat, whips up the suds with the best of 'em.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/carrie_rickey/20080913_Perry_goes_for_the_melodr... |