Jay Mohr

Wednesday December 30, 1998      Willard Carroll's "Playing by Heart" is a fine example of the traditional-style, multicharacter love story featuring an all-star ensemble cast, beautifully headed in this case by Gena Rowlands and Sean Connery. In...

Friday April 9, 1999      "Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane" is a hilarious black comedy in which a pair of luckless, 30ish, small-town car salesmen, driven to desperation, agree to take 48-hour custody of a burgundy 1963 Pontiac Le Mans convertible--in...

Friday February 26, 1999      When people celebrate New Year's Eve, they feel they've just got to have fun--and that of course means having someone important in your life to enjoy it with. Director Risa Bramon Garcia and writer Shana Larsen, in their...

Friday October 20, 2000      Is it live or is it Memorex? Is it a diamond or is it authentic cubic zirconium? Is the feeling in "Pay It Forward" genuine or is it a carefully created emotional forgery, the kind of fake tinsel that's been a Hollywood...

Buddy Hackett, who broke into comedy as a young waiter-performer in New York's Catskill Mountains and went on to achieve iconic status as a raunchy nightclub performer and rubber-faced clown in movies including "The Music Man" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,...

"Are We There Yet?" gets nowhere. Its star Ice Cube remains characteristically amiable, but this thuddingly miscalculated comedy is way beneath him. The filmmakers clearly intend a family comedy about the lengths to which a guy who doesn't like kids will...

Romance movies often require some melodramatic event to bring an estranged couple back together. Without New Year's Eve, Harry may have met Sally, but they wouldn't have ended up together. Below, we remember movies that used those familiar chimes at...

"King's Ransom" is one of those movies you suspect was built from the title up. Somewhere in a pitch meeting someone must have piped up: "I know. We'll have a guy named 'King' and he gets kidnapped, see? So there's a 'ransom'! 'King's Ransom,' get it?...

Warning: Seeing other people in the interval leading up to your wedding can be hazardous to the relationship. Although it takes the couple in the film "Seeing Other People" 90 minutes to learn this rather obvious lesson, fine performances from some TV-...

2 stars (out of 4) Success and longevity can eventually turn any movie star's frowns into smiles--even if the frowns are what made them famous. Ice Cube, one-time hard-case rapper and hip-hop revolutionary of NWA, shows his warm, kid-friendly side in...

Friday December 13, 1996      As a top agent at Sports Management International, Jerry Maguire has always wanted more. More clients, more money, a more desirable girlfriend, possibly even more phone calls than his daily average of 264. Then one day there...