• October 31, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

For no particular reason, I had it in my head that Last Vegas was about four veteran actors knocking over a Vegas casino. I understood their characters to be...

• October 12, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Few onscreen couples can compare to Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. They have such perfect chemistry that it’s possible to tolerate the sometimes silly, over-the-top situations in their movies...

• September 8, 2013
• At Home, Drama

To prep for seeing Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, I finally checked out the original Wall Street (1987) that earned Michael Douglas an Oscar for playing slithery, dynamic, greedy...

• September 23, 2012
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Imagine a sinister research institute was purposely putting normal, vital people into comas for their own nefarious reasons. You go in for a simple surgical procedure and the next...

• May 23, 2010
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

I sometimes have a tough time investing any emotional energy into characters I don’t like. No, let me take that back… everyone loves a good villain, say a Hannibal...

• March 22, 2009
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

The first ten times I watched A Perfect Murder, I thought it was the cut. I liked the sexy slowness of the plot, I thought Gwyneth Paltrow was a...