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NEWS ABOUT: chick flicks

chick flicks stories: 8 news summaries

Mobbed Sex and the City 2 Stars Get More Security

Fans "practically trampling each other" to get to SJP

Sep 3, 09 10:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York went so wild for the return of Carrie Bradshaw that security on the set of Sex and the City 2 had to step up its game. "Teenage girls were practically trampling each other trying to get to Sarah Jessica" Parker, an onlooker tells the New York Daily ... More »

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film • New York City • New York • Sex and the City • Sarah Jessica Parker • Cynthia Nixon • movies • chick flicks • movie star

MOVIE REVIEW

 Shopaholic Not So Addictive 

Subprime rom-com maxes out the clichés

Feb 13, 09 8:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Chick-lit flick Confessions of a Shopaholic is one victim the credit crisis should have claimed, say critics. Isla Fisher stars as a credit card addict who lands a job at a financial magazine, but her considerable comic gifts are wasted by a script that turns her into a "babbling... More »

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comedy • movie review • romantic comedy • Isla Fisher • movies • chick flicks

opinion

 Sorry, Chick Flicks:
 We're Just Not That Into You 

Genre too often relies on 'clichés, hateful caricatures' of womanhood

Feb 5, 09 11:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Where have all the Carrie Bradshaws and Bridget Joneses gone? The women of flicks like Bride Wars and Confessions of a Shopaholic are pale imitations of those relatively feisty heroines, “variously neurotic, idiotic, label-obsessed, weight-obsessed, man-obsessed or wedding-obsessed, and often all at the same time,” Kevin Maher complains... More »

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Hollywood • feminism • women • men • Sex and the City • Carrie Bradshaw • chick flicks • Bridget Jones' Diary • He's Just Not That Into You

 Twilight Draws Box Office Blood 

Film gets year's fourth biggest premier

Nov 23, 08 4:04 PM CST
(Newser) - Twilight sucked the box office dry this weekend by banking nearly $71 million and claiming top spot, Entertainment Weekly reports. That makes it the best-grossing film by a female director and among the top 30 premieres of all time. Filling out the weekend's top five: Quantum of Solace, $27.... More »

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box office • romance • vampire • movies • movie theaters • adaptation • chick flicks • Twilight

movie review

 Rodanthe Heavy on the Syrup 


Sep 26, 08 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tearjerker novel Nights in Rodanthe left some critics sobbing and others scowling. Now Unfaithful co-stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane are reunited for the movie version of the Nicholas Sparks romance, with a similar divide. The actors' "natural rapport" makes for a movie "one either utterly succumbs to... More »

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Richard Gere • movie review • romance • movies • chick flicks • Nicholas Sparks

MOVIE REVIEW

 Women Has Little to Like 

Stale stereotypes abound in update of '30s satire

Sep 12, 08 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - The modern update of 1930s socialite satire The Women is meeting scorn from critics. Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and the rest of the big-name cast do their best, Peter Travers writes in Rolling Stone, but they struggle "with a script that resists being crowbarred into the 21st century." More »

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movie review • movies • Carrie Fisher • chick flicks • Meg Ryan

OPINION

 Palin's Story: A 
 Political Chick-Flick 

Republicans get pumped for a 'babe' on the ticket: Dowd

Aug 31, 08 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin’s rise to the national stage makes for a great political chick-flick, Maureen Dowd observes in the New York Times. The plot: “the 2-year governor of an oversized igloo becomes commander in chief after the president-elect chokes on a pretzel on day one.” And experience, schmexperience... More »

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John McCain • Republican • Maureen Dowd • Sarah Palin • chick flicks

movie review

 Baby Mama No Bundle of Joy 

Only quiet chuckles in conventional flick

Apr 25, 08 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics don't seem thrilled about the arrival of Baby Mama, which tells the story of an overachieving, infertile career woman (Tina Fey) who hires a rough-around-the-edges high school dropout (Amy Poehler) to bear her a child. The movie's not "laugh-out-loud funny," writes Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post.... More »

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Tina Fey • movie review • Amy Poehler • movies • chick flicks

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