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Baby, It’s Fate
Javier Bardem made his American debut and snagged an Oscar nomination all in one bang when he portrayed the gay Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas...
Boxer Willie
You should always be suspicious of homeless dramas that star Oscar-nominated Hollywood actors. There are so many different ways that such movies can go...
Benjamin Britten and “Moonrise Kingdom”
Benjamin Britten’s music is one of my specialties, as it happens, and it’s front and center for one of my favorite movies of the...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2016
It’s time once again for my favorite blog post of the year, where I take advantage of the infinite space that the internet gives...
12 Mighty Orphans
In Twelve Mighty Orphans, author Jim Dent writes of football coach Harvey “Rusty” Russell arriving at the Fort Worth Masonic Home for Orphans in...
A Fourth Ice Age
If you buy a ticket to see Ice Age: Continental Drift, you will see a lovely, clever, surprisingly moving animated film that ends in...
Darkest Hour: Not Their Finest
I'm going to start this negative review of Darkest Hour by saying good things about this film. First of all, this is the best...
Crouching Tiger, Eating Panda
The latest animated family film from DreamWorks Animation, Kung Fu Panda is not as much fun as Kung Fu Hustle, but it's much better...
Housing Balloon
The best part of Pixar's new movie Up comes early on. The film starts with its main character, Carl Fredericksen, as a little boy...
Hunger Games: Girl on Fire
When it comes to adapting Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games to film, the big challenge is that the book is so many different...
