Hippies? Why, I'm the original.
- Jerry Lee Lewis

Review of “Fracture” & “In the Land of Women”

The paramount question that comes immediately to mind about Fracture is this: If Adam Sandler gets continually dissed for playing essentially the same role in every film, how come Anthony Hopkins doesn’t catch the same grief?

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Review of “Disturbia” & “Perfect Stranger”

Rarely do I reveal a spoiler about a film in a review. No matter how bad the film. Today is an exception.

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Every Vote For President Counts The Same — Bring It On!

I guess we can trace this new movement — the first seed of which has been planted in Maryland — on that darned cigar.

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Review of “Grindhouse” and “The Hoax”

Here’s what going to the movies used to be like back in the day. Way back in the day. Like when I was a tyke. Around noon on Saturday, my mother would drop me off at the Bard or Uptown or Airway. She give me 30¢ — 20¢ to get in, 10¢ for popcorn. Then […]

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Caroline, Nick & Rodney Hit and Run

Where to start with that talented but wacked trio that beguiled last Friday on Live Lunch, and again in the evening at the Kentucky Center Gallery?
Okay, let’s do Caroline. Caroline, Caroline, bo Baroline banana fanna fo Faroline, fe fi mo Maroline, Caroline.

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Review of “The Lookout”

Creation of a new film based in everyday realities, that also has a sense of uniqueness is a difficult thing. Sure, there is the occasional “Memento” or “Being John Malkovich.” But films of that ilk, while eminently enjoyable and certainly worthy of adulation are curios. They have nothing to do with real life.

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