The Top 10
This year’s movies brought us Life, Love, Youth, and Joy, as well as a bunch of films about women that wound up dominating this...
Christmas Movie Roundup
As is the case most Christmases, this week has tons of movies dropping into the multiplexes for the holiday, so I’m publishing a guide...
Show of Force
I think I’ve been resisting the Star Wars hype pretty well. While people around me have been holding their breath for the better part...
Fair Is Foul
Some otherwise rational people think that there’s a curse over Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and one piece of evidence they have is that so many great...
Here Come the Hardys
You can see the reasoning behind Legend. In casting Tom Hardy as the identical twin brothers who ran London’s organized crime scene in the...
Career Move
Jeremy Lanning always knew he was going to join the military.
“It felt like something I was supposed to do,” said the 41-year-old Fort Worthian....
This My City
Satire has been an element of Spike Lee’s filmmaking since the beginning. Caricatures, heightened reality, and subversive jokes aimed at all manner of targets...
Shadow Writer
Dalton Trumbo was, to use an overexposed word, a hero. His life may never have been in grave peril, but after the Oscar-winning screenwriter...
A Whole New World
This is weird: John Crowley was originally supposed to direct the upcoming Carol, but he dropped out due to a scheduling conflict. Instead, the...
Gonna Fly Now
For whatever reason, I never got invested in the Rocky series. I haven’t even seen most of the sequels. So perhaps I’m being presumptuous...
