When you’re hanging out with old friends, watching a movie is often the last resort when looking for something to do. After all, you can’t talk during a movie anyway (at least not too much), […]
Sorry I’m late with my summer movie column this year. But at least I’m getting it out by Memorial Day, which used to mark the end of the TV season and the start of the […]
On Friday, “The Empire Strikes Back” marks its 30th anniversary. That’s right, 30 years ago, the movie industry was capable of putting out a Memorial Day weekend blockbuster that people wanted to see and that was not […]
The first sign that the characters have gone back in time in “Hot Tub Time Machine”: No cell phone reception. The second sign: A guy is talking on a giant portable phone.
Movie commentary: From the perspective of 2002, I look back at 1990’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and the saga around it.
Movie review: The TV movie “Turtles Forever” was Peter Laird’s last big project before selling “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” to Viacom.
Like everyone, I think “Catcher in the Rye” is a brilliant book. I think J.D. Salinger’s other three books (actually compilations of his magazine short stories and novellas) range from very good to OK — […]
Sort of like “Idiocracy” or that Mel Gibson picture where he could read women’s minds, “The Invention of Lying” (now on DVD) posits an alternate reality and then has fun exploring it with a series of “What […]
Asperger’s syndrome is an internally dramatic condition. Outwardly, the person comes off as antisocial, but that’s not the inner truth. Aspies don’t provide facial expressions that cue the insight into their minds. Also, they have […]
In a recent Entertainment Weekly article, James Cameron said that although the computer-generated characters in “Avatar” are aliens, he could’ve just as easily created real-looking humans in the computer.