If only they would stay retired…

 

 

When is enough enough? Right about now.

 

 

Jan29

Looper — More Issues in Time Travel

Looper has a great premise with some fine performances — but loses its way when in the time-travel paradox.

 

 

The fifth film promises to dumb down the story and remind us of how awesome McClane was twenty years ago.

 

 

This week’s releases include trouble with time travel, a melodrama whose marketability is being aided by the Chicago teachers’ strike, and animated fart jokes.

 

 

As A Christmas Story begins its twenty-four hour loop to commemorate the holiday season, I think of the various other film staples that have become part of this season’s diet. Rounding out a brief list is, most often, It’s a Wonderful Life, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Scrooged, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the brief cartoon, not the […]

 

 

As I ponder what to do during my retirement, it often involves the usual sitting on a porch, yelling at kids to get off my lawn – whether they are there or not. In all honesty, I picture myself sitting in a very similar position to the one I am in now, a pile of books next […]