Callie Khouri

(C+) There's a robbery going on in Mad Money, but it has nothing to do with what happens in the movie. The pleasures of this slight caper film are strictly small-screen, as three talented actresses walk through quaint roles before they hurry on to the...

In the heist comedy "Mad Money" a trio of cleaning ladies loot a Federal Reserve Bank of millions in old bank notes headed for the shredder. They figure nobody will notice. Much the same thing could be said of this film, which may not be awful enough...

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tamara Jenkins has some mixed feelings about the remarkability of this year's female-flush original screenplay category. "It's a complicated feeling to be singled out because of gender. Sometimes you bristle under the...

When Diane Keaton checks into a luxe hotel in "Mad Money," flashing a green wad of ill-gotten gains, the name she gives to the hotel clerk is "Capone." It's gratifying to report that Callie Khouri, the maverick screenwriter of "Thelma and Louise," is...

At best, "Mad Money" is a (barely) tolerable movie with a promising low-fi premise for a heist. At worst, it's a waste of time and talent, forcing Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah to telegraph comedy with amateurish antics like eye-rolling and wild...

Roger Cross, late of "24," is joining the ensemble cast of Callie Khouri's comedic caper "Mad Money." According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ted Danson, Stephen Root, Adam Rothenberg, J.C. MacKenzie, Chris McDonald and Finesse Mitchell will appear opposite...

Katie Holmes is reportedly out of "The Dark Knight," but Suri's mom has picked her first post-maternity movie role. According to Variety, Holmes will appear in "Mad Money," a heist flick from "Thelma & Louise" writer Callie Khouri. Holmes and Queen...

What do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...

From The Times: March 31, 1992 "The Silence of the Lambs," the suspenseful but gruesome psychological thriller centering on an FBI trainee's battle of nerves with a diabolical psychiatrist-turned-cannibal, swept the Oscars Monday night, winning the...

Like a taste for gumbo or zydeco, good childhood chums tend to stick with you all your life. That's one of the sharper perceptions in "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," a movie about lifelong friends, dark secrets and other mainstays of Southern...

Yes, this summer you'll have the chance to see a lot of movies, even more than last year, as the studios try to build on last summer's record-breaking grosses while the multiplexes provide more and more screens for them to do so. Have at it. As always,...

It has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season...