Dumb Money: The Kitty of Wall Street
One of the things that cheered me up in those dark days of January 2021 was the news about the GameStop stock. A number...
Baker Street Irregulars
The Bank Job has nothing to do with the 2003 version of The Italian Job, even though both movies feature Jason Statham.
The balding, jut-jawed,...
Radio Days
I have to admit, I have no idea whether the film version of A Prairie Home Companion is a good movie or not. I...
Jane Addiction
The devotion of Jane Austen’s fanbase can be measured in how many movies have been inspired by her work. I don’t mean just straightforward...
Florence Foster Jenkins: Murder on the High Cs
Meryl Streep has proven her singing ability time and again, so it seems more than a bit perverse to cast her as one of...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
Welcome to my fourth annual look at the mid-major categories of the annual Academy Awards (to be televised Sunday) It’s my way of pointing...
Summer Movie Guide
I could be using this space to write about the efficient mediocrity of Solo: A Star Wars Story, but this issue is the summer...
Theater Camp: Community
It’s been more than a quarter century since Waiting for Guffman skewered the pretensions of theatrical types with more creative passion than talent. Theater...
Collateral Damages
The hype over Captain America: Civil War has been washing over us from the fan conventions and the parts of Europe where the movie...
M3GAN: Hello, Dolly!
So, the trailer for M3GAN dropped this past fall, and everybody freaked out about the creepy talking and dancing doll. I did, too. A...
