Features
Friday, September 12 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008
Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.
Columns
Thursday, December 18 2008
Exquisite Agony
This holiday season, Mickey Rourke (in The Wrestler) and Will Smith (Seven Pounds) suffer for all us sinners.
Reviews
Friday, December 19 2008
Seven Pounds
Equally afflicted by an old-school weepies affect and new-agey self-righteousness, Seven Pounds is by turns clumsy and overbearing.
Monday, March 26 2007
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
The Pursuit of Happyness is the male version of a "chick flick": aimed at wringing tears from even the most macho dude in the house.
Friday, December 15 2006
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
As quick and resolute as Chris may be, he's still caught up in the fiction around him, The Pursuit of Happyness, which is not nearly so smart.
Blogs
Thursday, December 18 2008
Tearjerker Given a Post-Modern Make-Over in 'Pounds'
If there is one genre that's in desperate need of a post-modern make-over, it's the tearjerker. Comedy gets retrofitted every few years, while the action…
News
Friday, December 26 2008
Hollywood, race and the Age of Obama
Gook. Dragon lady. Swamp rats. These are but a few of the cringe-inducing racial epithets spewed by Clint Eastwood's Walt Kowalski in "Gran Torino," the…
