The Love Guru

Is it redundant to mock self-help culture? Not if you're Mike Myers and have a new sketch-comedy character to introduce.

"...Speedo. And then there’s the unshakeable sense that mocking self-help culture is a redundancy, like making fun of reality..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Benevolent Agitator

Jim Hightower's undiluted populism is wittty, rousing, and engaging, Clay Smith asserts in a review of Hightower's new book If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote, They Would Have Given Us Candidates

"...you might say that reading Jim Hightower is like self-help for the politically frustrated (his randy, vivacious intelligence excludes..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Disenchanted

Dec. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

May 23, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Black Christmas

Redo of horror classic rejects subtext for political message

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Biography of Leonard Cohen's muse can't stop focusing on the artist

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Luv Doc: A Johnny Appleseed of Negativity

You will become an even better version of the person you believe yourself to be

"...of sounding like Tony Robbins or some other smarmy self-help guru, I am going to suggest that you stop..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail

Just what's needed in the big house – Perry's pistol-packing granny.

Feb. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Madagascar

Animated zoo animals head back to the wild

May 27, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Auto Focus

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Cultural Hero

Dec. 25, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Exhibitionism

"...help anyone — are the kind of rhetoric the self-help decade used not only to tap into our consciousness..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Arts Review

The Nightingale

Jennifer Kent's follow-up to The Babadook is a true historical horror

Aug. 9, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

All Saints

Planting seeds to save a church

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Good Eye: Secrets of Charm

Charmed, we're sure ...

"...her own, including an adaptation of the typographically rich self-help novel That Something by William W. Woodbridge. (Here is..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Take Me to the River

Memphis and Stax Records music artists from an earlier era mentor a younger generation in this ambient documentary.

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

English Vinglish

This Bollywood picture was mostly filmed in Manhattan and tells the story of a wife and mother who discovers her self-confidence.

Oct. 12, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Technology, Take Us Away

Are our gadgets and gizmos troubleshooters or troublemakers?

"...174 of this year's panel proposals fell into the "self-help/self-improvement" category. "I think as FriendFeed has taken off, Facebook..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

The slapstick humor remains, as does the slack plotting, in this animated sequel that's nevertheless fun for all.

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Theresa Everline

Claus & Effect

The holiday how-to guide for the perpetually perplexed

"...Don't give self-help books or self-improvement gifts unless the person has asked..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Features Feature by Meredith Barnhill

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Albert Brooks again sallies forth where others fear to tread, although his comic results are more mildly amusing than riotously funny.

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mister Z Loves Company: An X-Rated Self-Help Odyssey

Local Arts Reviews

"...Mister Z Loves Company: An X-Rated Self-Help OdysseyBlue Theater, through Oct. 18..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

There's Something About Mary

Mary arnold gets down to brass tacks on bradley deal

"...C Homeowners to embark upon neighborhood planning through the self-help method. SOSA wants those who currently live in the..."

March 10, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Dill Scallion

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

God Said “HA!”

May 7, 1999 Movie Review by Robert Faires

First Kid

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I, the Worst of All

Based on the book The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz, this Argentinean film takes place in 17th century “New Spain” (Mexico) as Juana Ines de la Cruz enters a nunnery to pursue her intellectual aims.

Feb. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ruby in Paradise

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Golden Gate

Jan. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mac

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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