Weekend Roundtable: Anger Management
Anger is a very primal emotion that makes great fodder for movie plots. Our Roundtable this week looks at some of our favorite movie scenes in which characters lose their tempers and rage out.
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‘Where the Universe Sings’ Review: A Little Paint-by-
When his paintings started selling for record highs a few years ago, artist Lawren Harris experienced an unexpected career renaissance decades after his death. In celebration, co-directors Peter Raymont (‘Shake Hands with the Devi...
‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Review: Heigh
‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ is a curious effort for Ang Lee. The director does some genuinely experimental visual work that can be rather brilliant. At the same time, the film’s script often can’t live up to the craft, despi...
‘Love the Coopers’ Review: Crap, Actually
The holiday season wouldn’t be complete with some sort of maudlin family special at the multiplex. This year, that pile of Christmas crap arrives in ‘Love the Coopers’, one of the most tediously dull and frustrating entries in the...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Road Trip Movies
One of the great advantages that movies have over, for example, stage plays is the ability to go places. As a plot device, the road trip has fueled countless films from at least as far back as ‘It Happened One Night‘ to this very ...
‘Live from New York!’ Review: Yet Another ‘SNL&
No other television series has spawned more retrospective documentaries than ‘Saturday Night Live’. To be fair, no other show in the history of television has a comparable legacy of launching generations of comedy stars and someho...
‘Home’ Review: Meemo & Blitch
‘Home’ is the latest candy-colored, family-friendly CGI babysitter and there really isn’t much more to say about it beyond that. Sure, it starts out with a pretty clever premise (taken from a popular children’s book), but quickly ...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movies About Parenting
This week in theaters, Johnny Knoxville demonstrates how absolutely not to be a responsible role model for a child in ‘Bad Grandpa’. For today’s Roundtable, let’s take a look at some of our other favorite movies about the parentin...
One from the Vault: ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
I have two standard films that I put on in the background when I’m making my annual Halloween costume. The first is ‘Army of Darkness’, and the second is ‘Little Shop of Horrors’. I am dying for a Blu-ray version of ‘Little Shop’....
Weekend Movies: Two Remakes and a Film for Senior Citizens
I honestly haven’t a clue as to which film will take Number One at the box office this weekend. I can tell you which one deserves it, but horror movies generally don’t appeal to all audiences.
Now Playing: This ‘Big Year’ Is for the Birds
If you know anything about ‘The Big Year’, you’ve probably asked yourself, “How can a movie about birding (a.k.a. bird-watching) be entertaining?” Well, it can’t. It’s not. And as you may have assumed, it’s about as much fun as bi...
The Netflix Stream: Week of April 3rd, 2011
It’s a good week for Netflix subscribers who also happen to be anime fans. Netflix signed a deal with Viz to get ‘Naruto’, ‘Bleach’ and a few others up for streaming. Even better, they’re subtitled. Not into anime? Then maybe you’...