My Guaranteed Don’t-Sue-Me-If-I’m-Wrong Oscar Nomination Predictions
JANUARY 22, 2018 I’ve been blabbing on this website for months about the possible nominees for the 2018 Academy Awards, but the rubber meets the road this Tuesday morning…
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Though Disturbing at Times, “I, Tonya” is Usually an Absolute Hoot
JANUARY 11, 2018 Seriously, was anyone really crying out for a film biography of disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding? Well, apparently screenwriter Steven Rogers (“Stepmom”) thought so and enlisted…
“The Greatest Showman” is Quite a Show But is Not So Great
JANUARY 3, 2018 In 2004, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Hugh Jackman live on stage, giving it his all on Broadway in the musical “The Boy from…
Matt Damon Shrinks to the Size of a Snickers Bar in Alexander Payne’s Disappointing “Downsizing”
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…
“The Disaster Artist” — A Perfectly Wonderful Film About a Perfectly Dreadful Movie
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…
What to See (or Not) at the Movies This Holiday Week
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…
Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel” Aspires To Be a 1950s “Blue Jasmine,” But It Misses By a Mile
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”…
Winners and Losers in Doug Jones’ Big Alabama Win
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…
Guillermo del Toro’s Mesmerizing “The Shape of Water”
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…
Gary Oldman Will Likely Bellow His Way to an Oscar for “Darkest Hour”
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…
