Is “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Any Good? Does It Even Matter?
DECEMBER 22, 2015 Let’s get to the big question. Is “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” any good? It’s good enough. Whenever anyone asks if I’ve seen the film, the…
Reviews of big budget Hollywood films
DECEMBER 22, 2015 Let’s get to the big question. Is “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” any good? It’s good enough. Whenever anyone asks if I’ve seen the film, the…
DECEMBER 15, 2015 Leave it to Ron Howard to make cannibalism boring. Welcome to “In the Heart of the Sea,” Howard’s latest epic which details the sinking of the…
DECEMBER 1, 2015 Remember a week or so ago, I had a column that mentioned 10 performances that should be on your Oscar radar as Best Supporting Actor? Well,…
NOVEMBER 25, 2015 A Seth Rogen Christmas movie. A sentence I never thought that I would ever write. But now we have “The Night Before,” yet another Rogen vehicle…
NOVEMBER 23, 2015 The opening scene of Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies” features a stunning shot that sets up the entire film. Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) likes…
NOVEMBER 19, 2015 When I think back on the best movies so far this year, they tend to be films that have upended my expectations by defying genres or…
NOVEMBER 9, 2015 You will not be surprised to learn that the latest James Bond film, “Spectre,” has its own Facebook page. But if the folks behind that page…
NOVEMBER 4, 2015 On Sunday, October 11, the movie world was all agog talking about the opening weekend gross of Danny Boyle’s new film, “Steve Jobs.” The film had…
OCTOBER 27, 2015 No one saw “Room” coming. At this year’s Toronto Film Festival, all the talk was about the Oscar bait, films that use the festival to launch…
OCTOBER 20, 2015 In Mexican cinema circles, they are known as “The Three Amigos.” Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro came up together in the Mexican…