Confessions of a Shopaholic (movie)

Confessions of a Shopaholic is a lot more in sync with the zeitgeist than you'd expect from a movie with that title. A dizzy and chic chick picture for our times, this hit-or-miss comedy is about the perils of conspicuous consumption, the void that...

Isla Fisher, who stars in "Confessions of a Shopaholic," has a secret of her own: It was all method acting. "I'm not anti-shopping, but I shop rarely and poorly," says the actress, who's been handed the Herculean task of making a hero out of a woman...

Ilisa Tanner unlocks the door of a back room in a West Hollywood day spa. A whiff of mothballs wafts out of the small space, which has a folded massage table leaning against one wall and a few "Zen" decorations scattered about. Most of the room, however,...

If you're looking for a sympathetic ear, or worse, sage relationship advice from romantic comedies, well, they're just not that into you. It seems that the ideas commonly put forth by such movies -- a singular soul mate; deception in the name of desire;...

If there is a single bright spot in the financial crisis, it is the possibility that one day producer Jerry Bruckheimer will run out of money. In a more just world, this would have happened before he gave the green light to "Confessions of a Shopaholic,"...

"Wedding Crashers" co-star (and Sacha Baron Cohen's partner-in-life) Isla Fisher will star in "Confessions of a Shopaholic." Set up at Touchstone, the film is based on the novels by Sophie Kinsella (pen name for Madeleine Wickham) and will be directed by...

The Bryan Singer-directed Tom Cruise vehicle "Valkyrie" has had its release date pushed back for the second time. According to the industry trades, the WWII drama, which focuses on an attempt to assassinate Adolph Hitler, will now open on Feb. 13, 2009....

Actors whose characters battle demons -- think Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" or Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" -- get to thrash around. Performers who are playing the larger-than-life -- picture Daniel Day-Lewis in " There Will Be Blood" or...

Claire Danes and her boyfriend, British actor Hugh Dancy, are making it official. Danes' rep confirms to the celeb mags that the "Terminator 3" and "My So-Called Life" star and Dancy are engaged. The two met on the set of the 2007 film "Evening" and have...

When it comes to curing the economic blues, laughter still is the best medicine. Moviegoers this weekend took a break from the drumbeat of layoffs and bankruptcies, heading to theaters to watch comedies such as Tyler Perry's "Madea Goes to Jail," the...

The pleasure of mindless Hollywood chick-lit adapted comedic fare is the rejuvenating ritual of kicking back, eating bad-for-you-snacks in the dark, and forgetting about the real world as you sink into the fairy tale that's about to unfold. Confessions of...

In this economy, it's no fun to look for work, so this weekend Josh Navarro tried to distract himself by seeing a movie. He picked something even scarier than the job market: "Friday the 13th." So did thousands of other people, as a splashy remake of the...