Men: Male Parts
The psychology guys say that while staring at the color green tends to soothe people, staring at the color red tends to have the...
Riled Up
Let’s be real here. The main reason the low-budget Western Echoes of War is opening in theaters here is because of the presence of...
Courier: Moscow Mule
Middlebrow films like The Courier were already having a tough enough time before the pandemic. Since it hit, everything that has come out has...
Firth of Force
Talented though he is, Colin Firth has never shown that much range. While his close contemporary Hugh Grant has made a career out of...
NASCAR Gags
We’ve seen great movies about baseball, football, basketball, even soccer and golf. But we’ve never seen one about auto racing (Days of Thunder doesn’t...
Heard that Song
Amber Heard recently complained about her supermodel good looks getting her typecast in eye-candy roles in lowbrow slasher flicks and action thrillers. Maybe, but...
Bears Looking Into
If you have small children, by now you probably know the drill with these new Disneynature documentaries: lots of breathtaking photography and nothing that...
Good Time Charlie
Charlie Bartlett was supposed to come out last August. (In fact, that's when I first saw the movie.)
But its release was postponed until...
Yesterday: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!
Inevitably, I came to the Beatles through the movies. I was dimly aware of them in my childhood, but when John Lennon was killed,...
I, Tonya: Skatewreck
As a teenager, I came across a glowing Sports Illustrated profile of Tonya Harding during the run-up to the 1992 Winter Olympics. Reading the...