Edith Wharton is known for three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), and The Age of Innocence (1920), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. But she wrote much more than that, including 19 other novels, three collections of poetry, 14 short story…
A documentary that brims with both an old-fashioned spirit of adventure and a self-congratulatory hubris, “James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D” takes you to the “last frontier on Earth”, the deepest place in our ocean, not seen since its first and only exploration…
I left the Marvel Universe when I started college and return there only to check my “stash” in the attic occasionally, so my memory of the Guardians of the Galaxy is hazy. Maybe everyone else’s is, too, because I haven’t heard a…
“The Hundred-Foot Journey” goes a surprising number of places for such a short trip. It’s a love story, a story about culture clash, an underdog success story, and a movie that celebrates food—albeit one that devolves into a food fight…
They had it all. They wanted more. While that may sound like the motto of America’s wealthiest 1 percent, it’s the tagline to “Satellite,” an indie film from writer-director Jeff Winner (“You Are Here*”). The film purports to be a contemporary fairy…
When Disney released “Planes” in 2013 and advertised that it was “from above the world of ‘Cars,’” they invoked Pixar’s highly successful animated auto-racing adventures. But, as I wrote in my review, while the flight plan may have been similar,…
Hell hath no fury like a woman (or, apparently, Baby Boomer) scorned. Disney’s live-action “Maleficent” has irked and annoyed more than a few of the generation that saw the studio’s animated “Sleeping Beauty” in theaters when it was released in 1959. That’s because…
Fans of “The Wonder Years” have been waiting for the series to finally come to DVD, and patiently so, because they know the problem: getting permission for the series’ backdrop ‘60s and ‘70s music. It’s the same reason why “WKRP in Cincinnati”…
The main body of this review was written by James Plath for the 2004 DVD release of “La Dolce Vita” (1960) by Koch Lorber. The Video, Audio, Extras, and Film Value sections were written by Christopher Long for Criterion’s 2014…
Motown. It was a nickname for Detroit, but more people knew it as Berry Gordy’s record label—one that specialized in soul, pop, and rhythm and blues. Just as Chess Records became synonymous with the blues, Motown was the name for…