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Muriel's Wedding - Review (BellaOnline) - This is a charming film about growing up, self esteem, body image, surviving in a dysfunctional family and learning to live on your own. In the end Muriel realizes she is more like her father than she thought and she decides to

DVD Review: Margot at the Wedding (Blogcritics.org) - Fans of great acting, believable characters, and well-crafted dialogue will be satisfied. Margot (Nicole Kidman), a well-known short story writer, and her 11-year-old son Claude (Zane Pais) take the train out of New York City to attend her sister Pauline’s (Jennifer Jason Leigh) wedding to Malcolm (Jack Black), an unemployed artist who is still finding his medium. Margot thinks Pauline can do ...

`Wedding,' musical not a match made in heaven (The Charlotte Observer) - The screen-to-stage musical "The Wedding Singer" -- plastic, pastel-hued and packed with Reagan-era references -- mimics the 1980s decade in at least two ways its creators probably didn't intend: The show now in Belk Theater feels years too long, and when we're not laughing at its tackiest excesses, we're asking ourselves, "Why?" Why turn a tight, 95-minute movie, tracing the romantic ups and ...

Review: The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson (Guardian Unlimited) - Andrew Motion hails Frances Wilson's subtle and iconoclastic The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

Review: 'College Road Trip' too dumbed down (San Francisco Chronicle) - RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) College Road Trip: Comedy. Directed by Roger Kumble. With Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symoné and Donny Osmond. (G. 83 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "College Road Trip" is Disney's attempt to put Martin Lawrence, usually associated with a...

Madonna, Mellencamp heading into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (The Globe Gazette) - NEW YORK (AP) — Admit it. When Madonna was writhing around onstage in a wedding gown to “Like a Virgin” years ago, the last place you’d expect to see her was in something called the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Review: College Road Trip (Arizona Reporter) - By Harvey Karten - "College Road Trip" is like a G-rated "Animal House." In other words, it may be vulgar, but without profanity it will make few inroads on a potential collegiate audience. It may be about college, but again, this movie is not targeted toward the staff of the Harvard Crimson. The vehicle for the generous comedic talents of Martin Lawrence is directed toward the middle-school ...

Iraq, Iran to review joint oil well issue (ArabicNews.com) - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini on Sunday announced that Iran and Iraq are to review issues related to the two countries joint oil wells.

Review: 'Road Trip' earns passing grades (The Salt Lake Tribune) - Martin Lawrence, one of the wisecracking "Bad Boys" known for his vulgarity-laced riffs as a stand-up as well as headline-grabbing antics off-screen, stars in a Walt Disney family comedy.

Theater review: Pop a Mountain Dew and settle back (Memphis Commercial Appeal) - If not for trailer trash, what would become of "Jerry Springer," "Cops" or "The Blue Collar Comedy Tour"?