Pitch Perfect: College Notes
Between Glee, YouTube, and TV’s various singing competition shows, our pop culture is awash in cover songs like never before. That’s why the spectacle...
End of Watch: Partners Against Crime
End of Watch is the third in a string of look-at-me-I’m-so-gritty dramas about Los Angeles cops directed by David Ayer. This one is different,...
Master: Almighty Dodd
Bear with me here. I write this review a scant hour or so after watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, and like most of...
Arbitrage: High-Risk Bonds
One thing about New York City: In no other place on Earth are the very rich, the very poor, and everybody in between thrown...
Bill W.: Demon Drink
The title of Bill W. refers to William G. Wilson, the former Wall Street securities analyst who lost his livelihood to alcoholism and the...
Bachelorette: Maids of Dishonor
Remember that post-Bridesmaids wave of ill-behaved female humor that I mentioned last week? It reaches high tide this week with Bachelorette, a comedy that...
Hollywood Words
For a film about writers, The Words isn’t particularly well written. Scripted and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, the movie features a...
End-of-Summer Roundup
If you’ve been worn out by the summer blockbusters, now’s a good time to check out three low-budget films dropping in our multiplexes this...
Symphonic Shorts
“As far as I know, we’re the first ones,” said Paul Unger. The 43-year-old bassist for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra was referring to...
Hit & Run: Dax a Lot
Dax Shepard became famous as one of Ashton Kutcher’s crew of pranksters on the now-defunct TV show Punk’d before settling into a career of...
