Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom is a balls out melodrama that has the courage of its convictions – it’s […]
Author: Chris Bord
Spielberg’s Lincoln, or more accurately, Kushner and Day-Lewis’ Lincoln, is a great mixed-bag of a movie. I mean […]
Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy got some neat reviews when it came out from critics I respect, but I […]
Ruby Sparks is a creepy, crappy movie about an artist who literally creates his own reality. By my […]
In many ways it’s a meta-documentary – we see the Stones watching the film being cut together, knowing that they know what we do, which is that four people died at the climactic Altamont concert.
Mostly what John Badham did with Saturday Night Fever was to ape Scorsese, but he did one thing […]
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One (2011) isn’t billed as YA fiction, but it fits solidly in that genre, […]
I understand their humiliation; I have re-joined their ranks a dozen times. After 16 weeks recovering from a […]
Once upon a time, I ran hill repeats on a treadmill. I was interested in building strength, and […]
Syracuse Stage’s production of John Logan’s Red features impeccable production design, which is a Stage hallmark. The material […]
