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I’ve told myself that don’t watch soaps, but Queer as Folk is just another example of how I lie to myself more often than is healthy. Let’s just say that my early 90s addiction to 90210 and Melrose Place is something that I’d like to put past me, but...
Films about transgendered people aren’t exactly filling up the multi-plexes. For that reason alone, Beautiful Boxer is pretty special. But to its credit, it is actually a pretty charming and absorbing film, due in no small part to its star Asanee Suwan, a professional Thai boxer making his acting...
With an arguably weak script on which to base its antics, Taxi is constantly struggling to create comic moments but the attempts repeatedly fizzle out. The story follows perpetual screw-up Washburn (Jimmy Fallon), a New York City cop with a reputation for being vehicularly challenged. He can’t drive to...
Picnic is a prime example of what happens when a bunch of ordinary people get together to celebrate the last day of summer under a full moon: everyone goes insane. It all begins when Hal Carter (William Holden) comes to town to visit his old college buddy, Alan Benson...
Wimbledon is one of those movies that is inoffensively pleasant and watchable, then leaves your mind as soon as you’ve finished it. There is nothing wrong with it, and it certainly is agreeable enough watch, but it doesn’t really stand out in the romantic comedy/drama genre. Paul Bettany plays...
Lost in the shuffle between Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed first movie, the made-for-TV thriller Duel, and his blockbuster shark tale Jaws, was a chase movie called The Sugarland Express. I must admit, I had never really heard much about this film, nor knew it had any association with Spielberg. But...
Kenji (Tadanobu Asano, Twilight Samurai) is a Japanese library clerk in Bangkok. His work environment is as orderly and tidy as it is uninteresting, with fluorescent lights seemingly washing out all the color and life from the room. His own apartment reflects an even more excessive anal-retentiveness, with careful...
At no point do the Knights in King Arthur link arms and sing: “We’re Knights of the Round Table! We dance when e’er we’re able!” Perhaps saddest of all, when Arthur and cohorts thunder through a dark forest on horseback, you just KNOW that the Knights of Ni should...
Disaster film formula: Heal a broken family by putting them in the middle of a disaster. Estranged father makes up for past of broken promises by saving estranged teenage child, while mom (who is an upstanding professional woman in her own right) worries about them from another city, while...
A Soldier’s Girl is based on a tragic true story, about the affair between a soldier, Pvt. Barry Winchell, falling for a “local girl” who is a transgender nightclub singer named Calpernia Addams. Calpernia, refreshingly, is comfortable with who she is. She exudes confidence in her onstage persona, and is...
My award for the cutest on-screen family EVER goes to In America‘s Sullivan family. There’s moon-faced mom Sarah (the cherubic Samantha Morton). There’s the scruffy yet sweet dad Johnny (Paddy Considine). And then there’s their two freakin’ adorable daughters Christy and Ariel (played by real-life sisters Sarah and Emma...
I may have been only 9 at the time of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, but I was conscious enough to remember that a certain USA victory over the Soviet ice hockey team was a huge deal. “Do you believe in miracles?!” trumpeted sportscaster Al...
