Read more chick flicks stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/29829/chick-flicks.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:22:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/68530/mobbed-sex-and-the-city-2-stars-get-more-security.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNew York went so wild for the return of Carrie Bradshaw that security on the set of Sex and the City 2 had to step up its game. "Teenage girls were practically trampling each other trying to get to Sarah Jessica" Parker, an onlooker tells the New York Daily News...http://www.newser.com/story/68530/mobbed-sex-and-the-city-2-stars-get-more-security.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Sep 2009 10:31:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50688/shopaholic-not-so-addictive.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChick-lit flick Confessions of a Shopaholic is one victim the credit crisis should have claimed, say critics. Isla Fisher stars as a credit card addict who lands a job at a financial magazine, but her considerable comic gifts are wasted by a script that turns her into a "babbling ninny,...http://www.newser.com/story/50688/shopaholic-not-so-addictive.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Feb 2009 8:19:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49833/sorry-chick-flicks-were-just-not-that-into-you.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhere have all the Carrie Bradshaws and Bridget Joneses gone? The women of flicks like Bride Wars and Confessions of a Shopaholic are pale imitations of those relatively feisty heroines, “variously neurotic, idiotic, label-obsessed, weight-obsessed, man-obsessed or wedding-obsessed, and often all at the same time,” Kevin Maher complains in the...http://www.newser.com/story/49833/sorry-chick-flicks-were-just-not-that-into-you.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Feb 2009 11:10:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43467/twilight-draws-box-office-blood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwilight sucked the box office dry this weekend by banking nearly $71 million and claiming top spot, Entertainment Weekly reports. That makes it the best-grossing film by a female director and among the top 30 premieres of all time. Filling out the weekend's top five: Quantum of Solace , $27.4...http://www.newser.com/story/43467/twilight-draws-box-office-blood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 23 Nov 2008 16:04:22 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/38431/rodanthe-heavy-on-the-syrup.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTearjerker novel Nights in Rodanthe left some critics sobbing and others scowling. Now Unfaithful co-stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane are reunited for the movie version of the Nicholas Sparks romance, with a similar divide. The actors' "natural rapport" makes for a movie "one either utterly succumbs to or stubbornly...http://www.newser.com/story/38431/rodanthe-heavy-on-the-syrup.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 26 Sep 2008 12:04:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37233/women-has-little-to-like.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe modern update of 1930s socialite satire The Women is meeting scorn from critics. Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and the rest of the big-name cast do their best, Peter Travers writes in Rolling Stone , but they struggle "with a script that resists being crowbarred into the 21st century."http://www.newser.com/story/37233/women-has-little-to-like.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 12 Sep 2008 15:56:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/36253/palins-story-a-political-chick-flick.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSarah Palin’s rise to the national stage makes for a great political chick-flick, Maureen Dowd observes in the New York Times . The plot: “the 2-year governor of an oversized igloo becomes commander in chief after the president-elect chokes on a pretzel on day one.” And experience, schmexperience —“The PTA is...http://www.newser.com/story/36253/palins-story-a-political-chick-flick.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 31 Aug 2008 11:07:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/25579/baby-mama-no-bundle-of-joy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCritics don't seem thrilled about the arrival of Baby Mama , which tells the story of an overachieving, infertile career woman (Tina Fey) who hires a rough-around-the-edges high school dropout (Amy Poehler) to bear her a child. The movie's not "laugh-out-loud funny," writes Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post . "It's more...http://www.newser.com/story/25579/baby-mama-no-bundle-of-joy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 25 Apr 2008 7:50:18 CDT