Spike Lee’s latest joint has a story flaw. A big, gaping story flaw.
In a three week span, the San Francisco Giants’ Melky Cabrera, the Oakland Athletics’ Bartolo Colon, and Lance Armstrong have all been busted for using performance-enhancing drugs (PED). Cabrera and Colon, while guilty, illustrate the desire for relevance and the fear of physical decline, respectively. Cabrera had played for four teams: Yankees, Royals, Braves, and Giants. On […]
While this might be blasphemous to some, I must admit that the original Red Dawn (1984) is lost on me. A précis of the film would be: Soviet forces invade the United States, and the Wolverines, a group of teenagers led by Patrick Swayze fight back against what Ronald Reagan deemed “the evil empire” only a bit […]
As numerous news outlets have shown us over the past week, James Holmes entered a Colorado theater during the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises. He then allegedly opened fire, killing twelve people and wounding many others. The twenty-four-year old Holmes recently appeared in court for a preliminary hearing in which his hair was dyed a fading […]
If Jack and Jill wasn’t enough, That’s My Boy is full of harbingers that Adam Sandler’s career as audience pleasing comic is coming to an end. For sure, he won’t go broke, and every now and then he’ll step away from his own production company and make a decent film like Funny People or Punch Drunk Love, […]
All apologies for neglecting to write up the weekend arena last week, but my rationale is simple and is offered here: I could not bring myself to write anything about Rock of Ages or That’s My Boy. Some of you might be wondering, What’s hard to write about two crappy films? – something totally justified by the […]
Upon the most recent viewing of The Incredibles, I’ve come to the conclusion that the film directed and written by Brad Bird is not about superheroes or equality. It’s about rampant use of frivolous lawsuits. In America, there are over one millions lawyers per capita, more than any other nation. On average, 15 million civil lawsuits are […]
Image via Khodorkovsky-movie.com No one ever accused Ronald Reagan of being a genius(*). So when he implored Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” he couldn’t have known what he was asking his Soviet counterpart let loose. Four years after Reagan’s speech, the detritus of Communism littered the path to a post-Soviet Russia. The decade that followed […]
The Artist is charming, heart-warming, and fun, but I’m still uncertain why it’s destined to win the top prize at this year’s Academy Awards. To be fair, I accept that Best Picture rarely means “the best picture,” but I’m still confused about the source of all this hype. Michel Hazinavicius’ film is cute. It truly is, and […]
Back when news leaked out of Pennsylvania’s Happy Valley that an assistant college football coach had been accused of raping/abusing a number of prepubescent boys, the world began to re-imagine the mythology of Joe Paterno. Surely he was not responsible for such an atrocity, some said. What a hypocrite, others cried. And then there were those […]