Cowboy Up With Buck
Buck is a close study about a horseman and his methods, so no wonder it has widened out beyond the specialty art-house theaters here...
Gym Class Villain
If you saw last year’s School for Scoundrels and wished that it had been funnier, you should know that Mr. Woodcock answers your prayers.
It...
Survivor Girl
Wendy Orr wrote a story when she was nine years old.
Decades later it turned into her 2002 novel Nim's Island, a slim and...
Potter Books
Remember last week when I praised Notes on a Scandal as an antidote to what I called “tea-and-crumpets” British cinema?
Well, this week we’re...
1.83 Meters Under
What’s more depressing than a farce that isn’t funny? Uh, war, famine, poverty, reruns of bad reality TV shows, a few other things.
Still, it’s...
The Fall of a Sparrow
There are filmmakers who look back wistfully on the Hollywood of the 1930s and ’40s, when the studios had directors and other creative personnel...
My Name Is Earl
Kevin Costner has been miscast quite often in his career, but perhaps never more disastrously than in the movie out this week, Mr. Brooks....
Turn Out the Lights?
Are music corporations, with their emphasis on repetitive, easy-to-swallow sounds, quashing musical innovation? Are listeners demanding dumbed-down music? Is good music dead?
Several years ago,...
Hidden Gold
The Oscar nominations came out this week, and for once the talk about who got the nods might actually be overshadowed by speculation about...
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...
