When “Knocked Up” took America by storm, many people (Idol Chatterers among them) wondered, in a movie about a pregnancy which resulted from a one-night stand outside of marriage, where was the abortion discussion? Ellen, who blogged this originally, found a partial answer from Rogen in The Onion (though wish it was in a personal…

The very prolific Tyler Perry has yet another new movie coming out, his second release of the year (not to mention his TBS sitcom “House of Payne“). In “Why Did I Get Married?” a group of couples go away to a ski lodge and must face some, um, awkward revelations about their relationships. Watch an…

It’s great that we now have a teen sitcom about a Pakistani Muslim exchange student who changes the lives of his host family in small-town Wisconsin. Now all we need to finish the job of promoting understanding about the Muslim experience in America, is to have sitcoms featuring Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iranian, Egyptian, Senegalese, Indian,…

Finally! Finally, a good romance at the movies once again! But why, why, why are all the good ones somehow related to Jane Austen? The last time I was overcome by something romantic on the big screen it was “Becoming Jane,” the fictionalized, imaginative envisioning of Jane Austen’s “real life” love life. This time, it’s…

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