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This is the class of movie where a one-way ticket to crazy town will lead you directly to Julian Sands. Poor Julian has never lived up to the potential of his crush-worthy role as George Emerson in A Room With a View, but I digress. Seems these days when...
I’m sure we all have an idea of what it would mean to be a rock star – to work in our chosen field, make lots of money, become a household name, win the love of critics and fans alike, befriend Bruce Springsteen, and live happily ever after. We...
Mary White is the true tale of a feisty, opinionated young woman who loved fast horses. Sometimes she was so feisty and opinionated that it seemed as though someone might just snap and choke the girl to death. Other times she rode her horse so fast that it seemed...
Wishful Drinking is one of those dishy memoirs that make you feel as though the author has grabbed you by the hand, pulled you off to the side, and launched into a hilarious and totally conspiratorial conversation. It’s like sitting down with the life of the party and chatting...
Angela (Heather Graham) and Curtis (Jerry O’Connell) are an up-and-coming young couple who have spent most of their married life focused on their careers. Curtis is a successful (if amoral) divorce lawyer, and Angela has just pitched a new perfume for pregnant women to her scary battle-axe of a...
Now that I’ve seen Hannah Montana: The Movie, I can actually answer that pesky question that haunts many people over the age of 13: What up with this Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus thing? Well here’s what I gleaned from the big-screen movie version that was spawned from the girl’s uber-successful...
If I could have created my own major in college, there’s no question as to what it would have been: the films of John Hughes. It’s a topic I find endlessly fascinating, and I could easily devote my entire life to its study. At the time, I was working...
Like many little fans of The Muppet Show, I could not wait to see The Dark Crystal when it came out… and then I did. And it messed me up. Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street were child’s play compared to The Dark Crystal. Child’s Play was child’s...
Given the choice between watching young Bette Davis out on the town or older Bette Davis cooped up in a house, I’ll always take the latter. In fact, I don’t think there has ever been a better crazy recluse than Bette, and Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a monument to...
A Walk on the Moon is in many ways the ultimate Viggo Mortensen movie. It takes place during the summer 1969, and focuses on the changing dynamics of the Kantrowitz family. While Marty (Liev Schrieber) works to maintain life as they know it, his wife, Pearl (Diane Lane), longs...
My enduring memory of The Big Lebowski is this: upon its video release, the owner of the video store where I worked said something along the lines of, “That is just a fantastic movie, but it’s a shame about the language. I’m not sure I remember the last time...
In the opening scene of A History of Violence, the Stall family is awakened by the screams of young Sarah. Tom (Viggo Mortensen) reaches her first, and as he scoops her up, she explains that she saw a monster. Tom pets her hair and tells her it was just...
