Magic Mike: Comic Strip
A few years ago, Steven Soderbergh made a movie called The Girlfriend Experience about a high-priced prostitute, in which he cast a porn star...
Ted Talks
I have never been a fan of Seth MacFarlane or Family Guy, but when I saw the trailer for his debut film Ted, I...
People Like Us: Your Sister. Sister?
You’d expect the co-writer of the Transformers movies, Mission: Impossible 3, and Star Trek to take up a sci-fi action thriller in that same...
Safety Not Guaranteed: Grand Plaza
Every generation needs at least one sarcastic chick. We have Aubrey Plaza, whose bracing vitriol and crack comic timing have livened up films like...
Brave: Scotch Job
Well, everything comes to an end. Brave is Pixar’s 13th animated feature film in 17 years, and it marks the first time I walked...
Rock of Ages: Playing Jaxx
When it debuted on Broadway in 2009, the stage musical Rock of Ages lured metalheads to the theater with a neatly bombastic package of...
Intouchables: Comédie Noire
Officially, France is a colorblind society. Unofficially, many French people of color don’t have access to the same economic and educational opportunities that white...
Moonrise Kingdom: Sam ♥ Suzy
All of Wes Anderson’s movies are children’s movies. That’s what I realized while watching his Moonrise Kingdom, a spellbinding piece of work that opens...
Prometheus: “Get It Out of Me!”
To answer your first question about Ridley Scott’s Prometheus: Yes, it is a prequel to his 1979 sci-fi classic Alien. The director has hemmed...
Monsieur Lazhar: Bonjour, Classe
The French-Canadian drama Monsieur Lazhar was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this past year, and there were observers who tipped...
