Summer movie preview: 10 movies John wouldn’t mind seeing (Commentary)
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 […]
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Happy 30th anniversary to ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ (Movie commentary)
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 […]
I wish I could take a time machine back to before I bought my ticket to ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ (Movie review)
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.
Turtles were ‘Lean, Green and on the Screen’
Movie commentary: From the perspective of 2002, I look back at 1990’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and the saga around it.
‘Turtles Forever’ is Laird’s love letter to longtime fans
Movie review: The TV movie “Turtles Forever” was Peter Laird’s last big project before selling “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” to Viacom.
6 ways J.D. Salinger influenced modern pop culture (Book commentary)
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 — […]
‘The Invention of Lying’ is great, and that’s the truth (Movie review)
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 […]
‘Adam’ shows how hard Asperger’s is to portray on film, but it’s a noble effort (Movie review)
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 […]
If the passage of time was no object, what sequel would you like to see? (Movie commentary)
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.
5 random questions for which I have no good answer (Commentary)
1. In “Return of the Jedi,” when Luke and Leia swing to safety, what is the rope attached to? It can’t be attached to the barge they are blowing up, because then it would snap […]