A Fiery Tribute
What makes firefighters run into a burning building when everyone else is running out? What gives some people such a sense of brotherly love that they would willingly give their ...
Vanity FairLy Dull
There’s something wonderfully delicious about a large-budget Hollywood production of Vanity Fair–the 19th-century novel whose aim was to skewer a self-important class that reveled in its own preening excess and ...
Dangerous Liaisons
Theories have been flying fast and furious over the last two weeks about the cause of Kerry’s post-convention bouncelessness. But if his strategists really want to know why the Democratic ...
Cruise Control
Until the last ten minutes of Collateral, I was ready to write the movie off as a mediocre, if well-executed thriller. Before the last five, the story had taken such ...
Morals in The Village
Some critics will undoubtedly dismiss M. Night Shyamalan’s latest offering, The Village, as being too light on thrills to qualify as a thriller. And they would be right if that ...
Bourne Again
One thing’s for certain…Russian taxicabs can sure take a beating. Or at least that’s the impression you get from The Bourne Supremacy’s most heart-stopping action sequence.
Lest you doubt the ...
Two Loves
When it comes to old-fashioned love stories, The Notebook is a mixed bag. A sort of Romeo-and-Juliet story (had the protagonists survived to retirement, that is), it manages to draw ...
Terminal Madness
The most surprising thing about The Terminal–the new film that reunites cinematic Dream Team Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks–is not that it relies on good-hearted wit, good acting, and a ...
Praising Helen
When it comes to portraying pastors on film, Hollywood sticks to a handful of flattering and slightly-less-than-flattering stereotypes. On the flattering side, we have the bygone days of red-cheeked inner-city ...