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...disappointment was, she says, "a bit mad": she got married. An hour before she was due to fly out, her publicist hired a boat and captain. The fancy flowers and frocks from the premiere became bouquets and wedding dresses, and 20 km offshore, to the sounds of a porno flick being shot on a nearby island, Ramsay and her boyfriend, rock musician Rory Kinnear, said "I do." "I think the whole thing cost 20 quid," she says. "It felt like a Fellini film." It's no surprise that Ramsay's life takes surreal twists. So do the lives...
...Boston Herald), her supporting cast is no less impressive, including Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden, HBO’s Dominic West and teen favorites Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles. Mike Newell, best known for 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral and the 1997 mob flick Donnie Brasco, directs the film...
...story about integration, Waters smartly miscegenated two irreconcilable film genres: the message movie and the teen flick, or Sam Arkoff meets Stanley Kramer. To update the genre to the 80s, it was John Waters doing John Hughes, but with his own road map. No Molly Ringwald needed; Ricki Lake, in her motion picture debut as Tracy, is the dream image of every girl who has ever craved that eighth Twinkie. No teen realism here, just a romp through the pastel homes and matching mother-daughter outfits of a more naive era. No anxious parental conflict, at least when Tracy...
...summer romantic-comedy market with hits like Notting Hill and My Best Friend's Wedding--has been on a break from the genre. In general, studios have lost faith in mid-priced films, focusing instead on cheaper movies that turn quick profits (like last summer's Crocodile Hunter flick from MGM, which nearly tripled its $10 million cost at the box office) and mega-budget blockbusters like Spider-Man that can become repeat franchises and play overseas...
...middlebrow medium, is neither as smart as the smartest movies nor as dumb as the dumbest. Fastlane is, blissfully, exactly as dumb as the dumbest movies. Made by the uni-monikered director McG (Charlie's Angels), it reproduces the high-gloss, empty-calorie experience of a summer action flick, down to the loud soundtrack and the black-guy-white-guy jokes. It's crass, pandering, cliched--and fun. (A scene with the undercover black cop, played by Bill Bellamy, line dancing at a redneck bar is a pure 48 Hours rip-off but one of the few genuine laughs...