If ever there was a film in need of updating, it’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a 1947 fantasy-comedy designed to showcase the talents that star Danny Kaye had for song, dance, comedy, and multi
Fairy tales. When we’re young we believe in them, until we realize that, in real life, the dragon isn’t always slain, and a frog that’s kissed is all too often just what he appears: a fat old croaker.
“The Carol Burnett Show” is a tough one for me to review, because it’s a variety show, and that brand of television is nearly extinct. Only “Saturday Night Live” carries forth, and with more comed
Season 2 of “The Bletchley Circle” takes us back to London, circa 1952, and back in the company of everyone’s favorite quartet of former female code-breakers turned amateur sleuths. Okay, maybe no
As it has been stated before, HBO has had an exceptionally strong run of shows since "The Sopranos. " One strength all the series have had since then is the ability to not overstay their welcome. “Tre
Harold Lamb only cares about one thing: being the most popular man at Tate University (described in a title card as “a large football stadium with a college attached” and looking an awful lot like USC
“The King of Comedy” is a strange film. It stars Jerry Lewis, but cast against type in a serious dramatic role. It’s about an aspiring stand-up comedian with a goofy name (Robert De Niro as Rupe
Like many kids of my generation, I loved the original “Little Rascals” comedy shorts—not as much as “The Three Stooges,” but enough to feel some measure of excitement when one of them was rerun on tel
With a movie franchise, too often the law of diminishing returns applies. Creative teams lose their energy as a series goes on . . . and on, and sameness creeps in. We’ve seen it with the Barbie franc
In my This Week column, I used the word “inane” to describe Vince Vaughn’s latest comedy, and I stand by that language. But “Delivery Man” is also surprisingly entertaining, if you’re able to chec
When Fox got back into the animation game in 1994, I and probably half the world envisioned the kind of spirited competition the studio gave Disney during the Golden Age of cartoon shorts. But that ha
Not 10 minutes into “Barbie: The Pearl Princess” my daughter remarked, “I like these movies, but they really need to do something different. Every time it’s either a princess, a fairy, or a mermai