After watching John Cusack play a cold-blooded Black Ops agent in “The Numbers Station,” I’m convinced that I could probably handle the job. All you have to do is look numb and detached as you wal
He was only 5’9,” but he stood taller because he was a Barrymore. Contemporary moviegoers know John Barrymore as the grandfather of Drew, and the two of them share this much in common: they struggled
Their names were the stuff of legend: Matilda the Hun, Mountain Fiji, Susie Spirit, Little Egypt, Ninotchka, Tina Ferrari, Hollywood, and, of course, Big... Bad... Mama! And just at their peak, the le
When I think of witches, I envision women with long black hair, moles on their faces, broomsticks in their hands and curled fingers adjusting pointy black hats. I think of phrases like “Double double,
Before I re-watched “The Verdict”—new to Blu-ray this week—I could only recall one image from the film: that of star Paul Newman as alcoholic attorney Frank Galvin, playing pinball in a dark bar.
Jubal Troop is one heck of a name for a Western character, isn't it? It's the kind of name you can spit right into a cuspidor from clear across the room. Credit goes to novelist Paul I. Wellman, but i
In**“Brubaker,”** a 1980 prison movie, Robert Redford plays Henry Brubaker, the newly appointed warden to Wakefield State Prison, where, for the first half hour we see him admitted as an inmate and ob
Now the remake just looks stupid. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the 2007 version with Russell Crowe and Batman, but at the time I hadn't seen the 1957 original in almost twenty years and didn't revis
“The First Time” is the second feature film from writer-director Jon Kasdan—Lawrence’s son—and it has some good things going for it. The screenplay is well constructed, for one, and the film showc
“Viva Zapata!” is a tough film to review—almost as tough as “Song of the South” would be if Disney had the cojones to release that picture—because just about all the Mexicans are played by Caucasi
Yesterday I saw a news story about a 41-year-old Miami plastic surgeon who allegedly attacked his girlfriend over a Facebook posting, forcing her head into a toilet, then stuffing a rag in her mouth a
You don't have to believe in God to believe that Father Greg Boyle is doing God's work. The Jesuit priest began tending to his parish in the gang-infested Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles in the