Movie Mom
All reviews by MPAA Rating
» Read Review
Posted on Thursday March 28, 2013
"Gentlemen Broncos" is about the fantasies of a 15 year old boy and it has some of the charm but all of the failings of those stories. The charm is its unguarded purity of emotion and unchecked en...

The big-screen version of the...
"Ghost Rider" needs a new ghost writer.
Well, it needs something. You might not think that a movie based on a comic book about a flaming skeleton in a leather outfit who rides a (literally...
Bertram Pincus, D.D.S. sees dead people. And he's very crabby about it.
Bertram (Ricky Gervais, creator and star of the original British version of "The Office") doesn't much like any kind of peo...
"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" feels like ghosts of movies past, with a been-there, seen-that feeling that goes far beyond its familiar appropriation of the structure of "A Christmas Carol." It is no...
A soccer-mad friend sat beside me in the theater, leaning over from time to time to explain what was going on in the game on the screen or point out an in-joke about the appearance of a real-life f...

Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) is disobedient, obstinate, craf...
Plonk is a Britishism for cheap, low-quality wine -- not undrinkable, by any means, just nothing special. As much could be said for this film, lightly based on the helium-weight plonk of a best-se...
When it rains, baseball players go to the locker rooms and put on their street clothes, but soccer players stay on the field, according to father/coach Bryan Bowen (Dermot Mulroney). So we get not...

In 1935, the debate team from ...
Kids, here's a hint: Don't think you can pass a sophomore English exam on F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic and high school reading list perennial by watching this movie. While this version ...
» Read Review
Posted on Thursday March 7, 2013
Anyone here remember Van Williams?
He was the star of the 1966-67 television series, "The Green Hornet." But the only thing anyone remembers about the show today was the actor who played the ti...
» Read Review
Posted on Thursday June 16, 2011
The biggest shock in this film comes at the very end. It is not a spoiler to say that there's the usual "here's what happened to the characters" round-up. The shocker is the reminder that the mur...
Adam Sandler fans would do well to re-watch "The Wedding Singer" or "Happy Gilmore" rather than suffer through this excruciating mess of gross-out humor, eww-inspiring vulgarity, and soppy sentimen...
There are two types of people who awake with an uneasy feeling on Friday the 13th: the superstitious, and those who just can’t stomach the release of another horror sequel, remake, or (in this ca...
"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and ...
» Read Review
Posted on Tuesday December 18, 2012