“Young@Heart” is a documentary with an irresistible premise: rock ‘n’ roll songs performed live on stage by senior […]
Category Archive: Movies
Dave Eggers called his 2000 memoir “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” and if that title is meant […]
Step Brothers belongs to the post-modernish school of comedy that seems to be all the rage nowadays. These […]
What would you do, if you had the chance to start over? The Visitor is the story of […]
I used to talk about “required reading” and “required viewing.” I had the illusion that intelligent people should […]
The Cohen Brothers are wildly uneven filmmakers, at least to my taste. At their best, they transcend genre […]
At any given time, there are cognoscenti who will tell you their media of choice is going to […]
Cameron Crowe’s work as a filmmaker has been a largely autobiographical working-out of themes central to his life: […]
I love the smell of a movie theater. I say this as someone who doesn’t eat the popcorn […]
Little Miss Sunshine ostensibly belongs to the film sub-genre “squirm-inducing comedy.” The laughs in such movies are usually […]
