Read moreIf a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
Read moreI’ll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.
Read more‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject – unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.
Read moreWe exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.
Read moreWe think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
Read moreBlockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.