A Mighty Wind

Christopher Guest and his recurring cast of players give Sixties-era folk music a gentle poke in the ribs.

"...Directed by: Christopher Guest. Starring: Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara, Harry Shearer,..."

May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Waiting for Guffman

Guest's mockumentary tracks visiting drama teacher Corky St. Clair's biggest challenge: creating a workable musical revue celebrating his Missouri town's sesquicentennial using only local players.

"...Directed by: Christopher Guest. Starring: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara,..."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Supper

"...they host a big dinner to which a new guest is always invited for conversation and stimulation. This particular..."

June 7, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Almost Heroes

"...Directed by: Christopher Guest. Starring: Matthew Perry, Chris Farley and Eugene Levy. Oh,..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

"...clip from a 1960s edition of Firing Line with guest Ginsberg. Despite his weasel-like pomposity, even Buckley seems nonplussed..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Dangerous Woman

"...woman, slightly impaired mentally, and living alone in the guest house of her Aunt Frances (Hershey) amongst the citrus..."

Dec. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beauty and the Beast

A live-action remake of the Disney film

"...1991 film, the centerpiece number here is “Be Our Guest,” a razzle-dazzler that pops off the screen in a..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Matt the Electrician & Dana Falconberry Party!

Third in a series of vinyl single mash-ups yields release show

"...a series of 7-inch singles, each hosting a special guest. The latest, “The Party” b/w “I Don’t Have Anything..."

May 13, 2016 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Gardner Hosts Matt McCallister

Celebrity Dallas chef will highlight preserved food

"...Chef-owner Andrew Wiseheart continues the Gardner guest chef dinner series by inviting respected Dallas chef Matt..."

July 22, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

In this comedy sequel, the CG action moves to Washington, D.C., as the Smithsonian's exhibits are put into storage during a renovation.

"...Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Christopher Guest, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais, Bill Hader, Alain Chabat and..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gretel & Hansel

The woods are dark and deep, but far from lovely ...

"...my pretty, and know more,” she tells her young guest, before finally issuing the girl her ultimatum. For Gretel..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Pavarotti

Ron Howard's documentary shows the great tenor in all his humanity

"...hand) in small-town rural America, or chatting in a guest chair on the Tonight Show. One look at him..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Home Again

a lifestyle comedy with a soupçon of pain

"...break into the movie business to live in the guest house of her late filmmaker father’s sprawling Brentwood home...."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

How to Be a Latin Lover

A middle-age lothario learns some life lessons

"...Lavin, and Raquel Welch (and anyone who recalls Welch’s guest appearance on an episode of Seinfeld, in which her..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Laggies

Keira Knightley stars with Chloë Grace Moretz in Lynn Shelton's likable but aimless film about arrested adolescence.

"...and after a brief grilling, moves her into the guest room, but the way they’re making eyes at each..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The One I Love

Mark Duplass and Elizabeth Moss shine in this rom-com-dram with a twist.

"...all – but then they start exploring the separate guest cottage on the premises. To say much more here..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Your Sister's Sister

Director Lynn Shelton and her spry and compelling ensemble of three explore a curious tangle of sexual secrets and honesty.

"...interactions are forced. Your Sister’s Sister is a welcome guest...."

June 29, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Innkeepers

With slow-burn shudders, Ti West's haunted-inn story provides a stellar model for creeping dread.

"...until Top Gun's Kelly McGillis, as a spiritually attuned guest, enters the picture...."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Names of Love

This French romantic comedy is a gratifyingly grown-up kind of love story.

"...a live radio broadcast because she thinks the featured guest, a mild-mannered infectious-disease expert named Arthur Martin (Gamblin), is..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Another Year

Mike Leigh directs this brilliantly acted film about the loneliness experienced by those shut out of the family circle.

"...looks they share when their unmarried friend and frequent guest Mary (Manville) refills her wine glass for the umpteenth..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Due Date

Road comedy hits the sweet spot with Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis.

"...to engage in another of his now-signature strategies: celebrity guest cameos. In addition to the single-sequence appearances by Lewis,..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Foot Fist Way

Faux documentary about a strip-mall kung-fu sensei without the sense to come in out of the pain has moments of laugh-out-loud greatness but also much dopiness.

"...that wouldn't be out of place in a Christopher Guest mock-up, but again, both the gags and the sheer..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Simpsons Movie

The film delivers familiar hilarity and some treats you’ll never get on the show (nudity and drunkenness) but steers shy of anything bold and new.

"...seasons and good, The Simpsons has weathered changing tastes, guest stars, and writers to emerge as the longest-running sitcom..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

A wickedly entertaining postmodern take on the hallowed, Eighties-era slasher flicks.

"...Stieve, occasionally hits heights of satiric brilliance even Christopher Guest might envy, as in one early sequence that has..."

March 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Assisted Living

Greenebaum's superstylized first feature attempts to mesh fiction with nonfiction while remaining a narrative, and it attempts to do it almost entirely in the confines of a nursing home, entirely in one day.

"...Boone and Malerie Boone. It starts out like Christopher Guest and ends up like P.T. Anderson, though at no..."

April 8, 2005 Movie Review by Shawn Badgley

Lightning in a Bottle

Ostensibly a record of one mighty blues show, this film goes beyond the tag of concert film and achieves something more: a living history lesson, tracing the evolving sound of the blues.

"...the stage, and from a clowning Bill Cosby (who guest-schticks alongside Ruth Brown, Mavis Staples, and Natalie Cole as..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Van Helsing

Hugh Jackman's mysterious monster hunter is pittefd against nearly the entire pantheon of Universal’s classic monsters, including Dracula and and the Wolf-Man.

"...(Will Kemp), Frankenstein's monster (Hensley), Igor (O’Connor), and surprise guest(s) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Something of a rogue..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girls Will Be Girls

Valley of the Dolls meets Female Trouble in this all-male semimusical romp.

"...in concept and execution as anything from the Christopher Guest oeuvre. (Leupp’s tuneless warbling of the love paean "Dream..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

American Wedding

"...lewd, abrasively hilarious Stifler (Scott), as well as Christopher Guest regulars Willard, Levy, and Coolidge as various parents. American..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Return to Never Land

"...result of the war surrounding her, becomes Peter's new guest in the land of the Lost Boys. Once in..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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