Oscar’s Hidden Gold
Welcome once again to my Oscar preview that ignores the A-list categories in favor of handicapping the mid-major races, giving me the chance to...
Random Observations on Fifty Shades of Grey
So I finally saw Fifty Shades of Grey. It was less terrible than I feared, but still fell well short of being good. Let’s...
Losing My Mind
Julianne Moore looks like a mortal lock to pick up an Oscar next week for her performance in Still Alice, an honor that she...
My Deadly Valentine
I see it now. There are two Matthew Vaughns. In one corner, we have Good Boy Matthew Vaughn, the British director who brought icy...
Beautiful Boy
I’d like to take a minute to introduce you to someone. Xavier Dolan started out as a child actor in his native Canada, and...
Soak Up the Screen
I’ll admit this right now: I’ve never seen a single episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. I just never found the time, and my experience of...
Pain Cake
You may have heard the whispers about a movie called Cake that stars Jennifer Aniston and played at the Toronto Film Festival. The lead...
Hard Winter
The discontent over this year’s Oscars has been all about the overwhelming whiteness of the nominees. Most of that discontent has coalesced around Selma,...
Odds and Ends
Just like last January, I find myself having watched a bunch of movies from the previous 12 months that I found intriguing but didn’t...
Takedown
After billionaire wrestling benefactor John du Pont was arrested in 1989 for murdering coach and former Olympic gold medalist Dave Schultz, the police announced...
