Fantastic Mr. Fox
Why has Wes Anderson not been making movies like “Fantastic Mr. Fox” his entire career? This charmingly stop motion animated kids movie is as perfectly in Anderson’s style as any film he’s ever made,...
View Article2012 Oscars Recap
Image courtesy of guardian.co.uk and Getty Images We love the movies. That’s why we watch the Oscars. Did I mention that we love the movies? And did I mention that Billy Crystal loves the movies? Oh...
View ArticleHope Springs **
I confess that there are problems married couples encounter in their sex lives that I am not yet equipped to understand. Even after decades together, two people can reach a point where they cannot...
View Article2014 Oscar Predictions Round 3
Checking Twitter in the past few weeks has been exhausting. It seems as though every hour there’s a new Top 10 list or set of nominations from a guild or critics group being handed out. It’s not enough...
View ArticleAugust: Osage County Review
Meryl Streep has gone broader in her acting as her career has continued to explode. Between a vicious nun, Julia Child, a scathing magazine editor and Margaret Thatcher, her roles as an ordinary...
View ArticleInto the Woods
Do we really need another movie or show that reimagines old fairy tales? How many different ways can we tell the story of Cinderella? Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Into the Woods” first premiered in...
View ArticleSuffragette
Sarah Gavron’s “Suffragette” is most relevant today as a piece of historical fiction because issues of women’s rights are in 2015 as prevalent and significant as they were in 1912 London. It’s the...
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