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The Best Supporting Actors of 2011’s Movies
The list of best lead performances of 2011 is forthcoming. In the meantime, without further ado...
Albert Brooks
It’s hard to discuss his performance in Drive...
The Top 10 Documentaries of 2011
You’ll note that no documentaries made my list of Top 10 movies this year, but that’s not because this was a bad year for...
The Best Movies of 2001
I was late with this feature last year, so I’m not repeating that slip-up this year. Here, with the added perspective of 10 years,...
The Top 250 Films of 2011
Let's be totally ridiculous for a moment. Since the whole concept of ranking the top 10 movies of the year is an arbitrary exercise...
Ten DVD Reviews
As is usual this time of year, I’ve been watching dozens of movies on disc that I didn’t have a chance to see in...
Oxfordians = Class Snobs
The literary world is in a predictable tizzy about this week's release of Anonymous, a movie that purports to argue the point of view...
Considering Anna Faris
I spent Saturday watching Anna Faris host a pretty good episode of Saturday Night Live that she didn’t contribute much to. Coming on the...
“Footloose”: Actor by Actor
Chris Penn and Kevin Bacon, 1984
Miles Teller and Kenny Wormald, 2011
I wanted to compare and contrast the actors playing the same roles in each...
DVD Review: “Meek’s Cutoff”
About halfway through Meek’s Cutoff, 19th-century Oregon settler Emily Tetherow (Michelle Williams) is gathering firewood. One of a small party traveling on the Oregon...
Considering Kenneth Branagh
Thor comes out on DVD today, and even though I liked the film when I reviewed it last May, I found it to be...
