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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...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2019
Arguably my favorite annually recurring feature is this one in which I compile the best movie dialogue of 2019. If you’re new to this...
A Beginner’s Guide to Korean Cinema
A little more than 10 years ago, I wrote an article for this paper reporting on the first Korean-language films playing in the area...
Angry Spider
The last shot of Spider-Man 2 was a close-up of MJ Watson (Kirsten Dunst) as she watched her beloved superhero web off into the...
Timothy Green: Autumn Leaves
The word “odd” is entirely appropriate in the title of The Odd Life of Timothy Green. This family-oriented movie has the bad luck to...
Blogging “Django Unchained” (The End Chapters)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
I mentioned this before, but I'll repeat my SPOILER ALERT: All plot developments are given away in...
More On American Graffiti Star Candy Clark
Candy Clark provided so many interesting quotes for this week’s cover story (“Graffiti Artist,” July 3, 2013) that some were left out for space reasons.
For...
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...
Learn From the Monsters
Early in Pixar’s latest movie, Monsters University, Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal) steps onto the campus of his college for the first time...
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...
