Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy got some neat reviews when it came out from critics I respect, but I […]
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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 […]
Francois Truffaut has been credited with saying there is no such thing as an anti-war film, and this […]
Alexander Payne’s The Descendants is a film best described as a well crafted short story. It doesn’t condescend […]
Today is Academy Awards day, which is more important in my house than the Super Bowl. I fear […]
Nobody, nobody, NOBODY swings for the fences like James Cameron. In 1986 I read a piece about his […]
My list of great modern romances includes Roxanne, Say Anything, Groundhog Day, Until Sunrise, Eternal Sunshine of the […]
Then She Found Me was released under the radar in 2008. Co-written, directed by and starring Helen Hunt, […]
