DECEMBER 28, 2017 “Downsizing,” directed and co-written by Alexander Payne is essentially two different movies, neither one of which is very good. This saddens me, because Payne is one…
DECEMBER 27, 2017 Have you ever seen “The Room”? I hadn’t either, so I decided to Netflix the legendary 2003 midnight movie a couple of weeks ago so that…
DECEMBER 26, 2017 The week between Christmas Day and New Year’s is traditionally the biggest at the nation’s theaters, and there’s an especially large number of movies this year…
DECEMBER 18, 2017 What the hell happened to Woody Allen’s writing? Yes, I know that he has recently had more bad movies than good (I’m thinking of “Irrational Man”…
DECEMBER 13, 2017 Photo: Getty The dust was still settling on Wednesday from Democrat Doug Jones’ upset win in Tuesday’s Alabama election for the U.S. Senate seat once held…
DECEMBER 12, 2017 Guillermo del Toro certainly loves the movies. His latest film, “The Shape of Water,” is a Cold War thriller, a musical, a heist movie, an interspecies…
DECEMBER 7, 2017 Ever since “Darkest Hour” premiered in September in Telluride, the word was out that Gary Oldman was a shoo-in to win the Oscar for Best Actor…
DECEMBER 6, 2017 One of the more pleasant surprises of this moviegoing year has been the growing quality of Netflix original films. Already we have had Noam Baumbach’s wonderful…
DECEMBER 4, 2017 Photo: Getty To the surprise of absolutely no one, President Trump’s former national security adviser, Gen. Michael T. Flynn, on Friday flipped like a crackhouse mattress…
