Second Best Indeed
I was lukewarm on The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel when it opened two summers ago, so you probably won’t be surprised that I had...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
Hey, look! It’s an Oscar ceremony in March, just like we used to have every year. With all the attention on the Best Picture...
Don’t Rock the Boat
The opening credit sequence of Pirate Radio fooled me momentarily into thinking I was being shown a trailer for the movie rather than the...
A Better Life, Mi Hijo
I remember watching Gregory Nava’s drama El Norte for my high-school Spanish class. I thought about that film while I was watching A Better...
Illegal Aliens
This is why I love my job: Every so often I get to see things that I've never seen before. With special-effects technology becoming...
Turn the Page(s)
Librarians and Hollywood types don’t tend to intermingle. One group focuses on details and research, and the other exists primarily to stretch the truth,...
Infinite Jest
It's high time that America discovered Steve Coogan. The 43-year-old needle-nosed native of Manchester, England, is hugely popular in the U.K. as the star...
Cheapers Creepers
Writer-director Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity has been labeled "the next Blair Witch Project" - meaning, essentially, horror's new runaway phenomenon - and judging from...
Fahrenheit 911
Did you see Saturday Night Live’s opening sketch a few weeks ago? The one that had Al Gore winning the 2000 presidential election and...
Not Too Late
Amid all the publicity that Gravity is pulling in, let’s not lose track of Enough Said, which is expanding into local theaters this week....