Top Films of 2006
While it was going on, 2006 didn’t seem to me like that great a year for movies.
Only now, as I look back, do...
Company Man
If you want a big-name actor to play a colorless guy with a hole in his soul, Matt Damon is now officially your man....
Dream Supreme
When Dreamgirls debuted on Broadway in 1981, it won over an entire generation of theatergoers, African-American and not, with songs by Henry Krieger and...
Along Came a Spider
The new big-screen version of Charlotte’s Web moves me to a sentiment that may be a first for me: This movie should have been...
Force of Will
I’ve been watching so many movies lately that maybe my usual defenses are worn down.
The Pursuit of Happyness is the sort of movie...
Sundance Kid
On a whim a couple of months ago, the 29-year-old Fort Worth native took a short break from his full-time job as a mechanical...
My Oh Maya
OK, so a few months ago, Mel Gibson had the year’s biggest celebrity meltdown, unless somebody comes up with a better one in the...
Two Weeks in Another Town
No less than The New York Times recently dubbed Nancy Meyers “the queen of chick flicks.”
Leaving aside my previously stated objections to the...
God Parents
I had an epiphany while watching The Nativity Story. An angel spoke in my ear, if you wish, though I prefer to believe I...
School’s Out
Quam Odunsi was born in Chicago to Nigerian parents and raised mostly in his parents’ homeland.
His first feature film, Borland, takes place in a...
