Holiday Movie Preview
The Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes are now over, but the ripple effects are still evident at the multiplexes. The Dune sequel got bumped...
Marvels: Tag Team
Let me draw your attention to one thing about The Marvels. It’s the running time, a crisp 100 minutes even including the mid-credit sequence...
50/50: The C Word
When he was 24 years old, a comedy writer named Will Reiser was diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer. Once he got...
Albert Nobbs: Man Drag
Glenn Close has been trying to get Albert Nobbs made into a film since 1982. Before she delivered any of the screen performances that...
Top 10 Movies of 2011
Do better next year, Hollywood. That’s how I feel as I look back on the movies of 2011. American films dominated my Top 10...
About a Girl
The radiant and gently heartbreaking An Education opens in Grapevine this Friday and is still playing at the Modern this weekend. It richly deserves...
All Folked Up
When I ran my list of 2013’s best movies a couple of weeks ago, I left off one film that was on many other...
Green Energy
Welcome to Hollywood in the 21st century, a time and place where a film doesn't need any fans to spawn a sequel.
Five summers ago,...
Gonna Fly Now
For whatever reason, I never got invested in the Rocky series. I haven’t even seen most of the sequels. So perhaps I’m being presumptuous...
The Top 10 Movies of 2010
In my list of top 10 movies last year, I took note of a resurgence in American films. That continued this year, and even...
