Not So Minny Laughs
The whole time I was watching New in Town, I was wondering why Renée Zellweger didn't fit her role. In this throwaway comedy she...
The Comedian: Laugh Lines
Funny people are delightful to be around, but professionally funny people can be exhausting. They turn every conversation into a wisecrack, a pun, an...
The Artist: Quiet on the Set
After premiering at last summer’s Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews and a Best Actor prize, The Artist has played to rapturous reception at...
Ingrid Goes West: #madlove
Well, now that "social media influencer" is an actual job title, people who call themselves that are now inviting targets for satire. Ingrid Goes...
The Beaver: Talk to the Hand
Sometimes when a star misbehaves in public, a perfectly blameless movie takes the hit. Such appears to be the case with The Beaver, an...
Evangelion: Dark Angels
“By now, Seele must be aware of NERV’s ultimate goal.” “That won’t stop us from doing what we must do, even if it means...
Red Dead Redemption
AMC Grapevine Mills has been running Korean films on a semi-regular basis for a while now, but Commitment, which starts there on Friday, is...
Maiden Voyage
I am not a Star Trek fan. I hung out with a lot of them growing up, but I managed to miss all the...
Iron Man 3: Terror Plot
Was giving former Hollywood wunderkind Shane Black the keys to Iron Man’s ignition something of a crazy bet? Because the writer-director hasn’t been a...
Fifteen
Theater actress Marielle Heller became obsessed when she read The Diary of a Teenage Girl, a 2002 illustrated novel by Phoebe Gloeckner that drew...
