Mary Steenburgen

Ironic role for Reese

LOS ANGELES - There's plenty of irony for Reese Witherspoon in her new Christmas comedy movie, Four Holidays. The actress plays Kate, a San Francisco yuppy in a longterm relationship with Brad, played by Vince Vaughn. Kate and...

She's a Christmas cutup

Reese Witherspoon has ghosts in her Christmas past. "When I was growing up, I really, really wanted to be Mary in the nativity play at church, but the preacher's daughter always got it. I was usually the third sheep on the left...

Mary Steenburgen, Jimmie Johnson, and Re-gifting confessions!

Love. Love. LOVE that skirt! Thumbs up, style team! It's the season of Re-Gifting, you know, and one of the viewers takes the idea of re-gifting to a whole new level - one year he got a $4 bottle of wine, and regifted it to his...

STEENBURGEN COOKS UP THANKSGIVING TREATS FOR 25

Actress MARY STEENBURGEN is glad Thanksgiving Day in America is over - she had to cook for 25, and cover everyone’s varied diets. The Parenthood star loved having family and friends around her for the big feast on Thursday...

Step Brothers DVD Review

Slackers Exhibit Sibling Rivalry in Dysfunctional Family Comedy Sleazy does it in this one-trick pony about a couple of middle-aged adolescents who refuse to grow up. One is 39 year-old Brennan "Nighthawk" Huff (Will Ferrell),...

Mini-review of 'Four Christmases': 1 1/2 stars

Labored: Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon are forced to visit their parents' four homes on an epic Christmas Day, a labored and implausible premise occasionally made bearable by Vaughn's freewheeling comic instincts. The...

Capone wants to kill FOUR CHRISTMASES and begs for a moratorium on new holiday movies!!!

Capone in Chicago here. In a couple of weeks, there is a sweet little film called NOTHING LIKE THE HOLIDAYS coming out about a Chicago-based Puerto Rican family getting together. And let me be doubly clear, I'm not saying...

'Four Christmases' far from four stars

By Michael Phillips | Tribune critic Question for Reese Witherspoon: Do you employ an agent, or a manager? Is this the best romantic comedy you could find? Question for Vince Vaughn: Do you employ an agent, or a manager? Is...

By-the-numbers comedy has its moments

Like a gift card in your stocking, the romantic comedy "Four Christmases" is pretty generic, though you might still be grateful for it. The jokes are old, but they hit as often as they miss. And while the free- spirited lovers...

Film review: Four Christmases

In this egregious Christmas movie, Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon each demonstrate the classic "Hollywood romcom" face: waxy as a corpse, dead-eyed with self-loathing, and as smiley and blank as someone who has just...