Title: I Don’t Know How She Does It Reviewed by: JM Willis Directed by: Douglas McGrath Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear Running time: 89 minutes , Rated PG-13, Available on DVD Kate Reddy, a financial executive juggles her career and responsibilities as a wife and mother of two, as rivals, friends and family comment in awe to an unseen/unheard interviewer.  Kate breaks the fourth wall as she explains “how she does it.” I  stumbled upon the Uma Thurman box office bomb Motherhood a few weeks ago while channel surfing at my parents’ house, and found the storyline in comparison eerily similar. Mom has to juggle being…

Title: Full Moon’s Grindhouse Collection – Famous T & A Directed by: Ken Dixon Starring: Sybil Danning, Angela Aames, Ursula Andress, Brigitte Bardot, Don Johnson, Jacqueline Bisset, Vanity, Nastassja Kinski Running time: 74 minutes, Rated R Part of Full Moon’s Grindhouse Collection, Sybil Danning donning a cream colored bikini underneath golden gladiator armor and wielding a sword, hosts a compilation of clips of famous and before they were famous women in various stages of undress and simulated sex scenes. Kids, it’s hard to imagine what the world was like without the internet. Nowadays we have sites like Youtube or Mr Skin, where they painstakingly find clips of naked chicks for…

Possessing crack comedic timing, beauty and yet still a sympathetic visage and demeanor, Lindsay Sloane exudes girl-next-door goodness, a quality which has kept her steadily employed in a variety of mostly sunny roles in both movies and television. It’s exactly these traits which writer-directors Peter Hyuck and Alex Gregory wished to deploy in subversive manner by casting Sloane in their bawdy comedy “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy,” just out on DVD last week. ShockYa had a chance to sit down and chat with Sloane about the uniquely titled ensemble movie, as well as her off-screen thoughts on its subject matter and what exactly the “orgy cut-off number” is that makes her uncomfortable. The…

“The Dark Knight Rises” is bound to be the subject of many trailer spoofs simply due to the fact that its so serious. There have been

Some people might not be keen on watching a film by Roman Polanski nowadays due to his sexual abuse scandal, but if you’re still interested in Polanski’s film career, you might want to know that his latest film, “Carnage,” will be screened in select theaters December 16, 2011. The film, based on Yasmina Reza’s play “God of Carnage,” stars Jodi Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly, and the synopsis, according to the press release, of the comedy is that the parents of two boys at odds come together in order to come to some solutions, but develops into an even bigger problem: “‘Carnage’ is a razor sharp,…

Title: Vamperifica Director: Bruce Ornstein Starring: Martin Yurkovic, Dreama Walker and Creighton James Running time: 95 minutes, Unrated The soul of Raven, the king of all vampires is reborn into the body of a flamboyantly gay college student / aspiring actor named Carmen. Two of Raven’s progeny have been desperately searching for over 200 years to find him, and want to turn him back into a vampire in order to save their dying race. Carmen’s two best friends Tracy and Peter only want to protect him, but are constantly being thwarted by the jealous vampire duo Emily and Campbell. Carmen soon must make a choice, to protect his friends or…

Deadline and Entertainment Weekly are reporting some awesome news–”In Living Color” is coming back! Fox is bringing the iconic early 1990s show back, complete with Keenan Ivory Wayans as the host and executive producer. Reportedly, Fox has ordered two half-hour primetime specials that will air during the midseason with an option for a series order if the ratings for the specials are high. I sincerely hope the series ratings are good enough for Fox to order an entire season, because television just hasn’t been the same without “In Living Color.” If you grew up with the show, you probably have a thousand reasons to love the show, but here’s a…

Comedy is hard, as the saying goes, but unshakably in the blood of writer-director Trent Cooper, whose latest film, the rangy ensemble farce “Father of Invention,” centers on a disgraced infomercial wizard, Robert Axle (Kevin Spacey), who gets out of prison and tries to start putting his life back together. Robert shacks up with his semi-estranged daughter (Camilla Belle) and her roommates, and gets a job working at a retail superstore, but finds his ex-wife (Virginia Madsen) remarried, and various attempts to secure start-up financing for a new idea stymied at every turn. ShockYa recently had a chance to talk one-on-one with Cooper, about his new movie, his feelings of warmth and affinity for…

Title: Jackie Brown Directed by: Quentin Tarantino Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton and Robert De Niro Running time: 154 minutes, Rated R Jackie Brown is a small-time airline flight attendant who gets caught smuggling cash and coke for Ordell, a gun runner. The feds tell her to make a deal, but Jackie doesn’t want to risk going back to jail and having to start her life over, so she enlists the help of bail bondsman Max Cherry to do one final run in order to score half a million dollars. I feel a personal connection when I watch a Tarantino film. One reason…

Title: Father of Invention Director: Trent Cooper Starring: Kevin Spacey, Heather Graham, Camilla Belle, Johnny Knoxville, Virginia Madsen, Craig Robinson, John Stamos, Michael Rosenbaum, Anna Anissimova If one could entirely banish certain ideas for scenes from the minds of all screenwriters, then surely near the top of the list for such cinematic excommunication would be press conference confessionals, which at some point must have seemed really bold and original but by now almost without fail come across as lazy and pat — an entirely synthetic way to give an audience the feeling of a character-awakening conclusion without any of the heavy lifting that accompanies honest reflection. Such is the dispiriting end…