The Devil Wears Prada isn’t a brilliant film, but it certainly is an entertaining one.

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There’s an incredible scene in Superman Returns where the Man of Steel has caught a gigantic globe–the Daily Planet, as a matter of fact–which only moments before had been falling from atop a skyscraper to a populated street below. As he lowers it gently to the ground, he takes on the iconic pose of Atlas, [...]

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I have to admit, I enjoyed Nacho Libre, even while realizing it was not anywhere near as good as I hoped it would be or should have been. It’s unfortunate. Jack Black as a fat Mexican friar who moonlights as a professional wrestler dressed in stretchy pants should bring the house down. Instead it merely [...]

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I was introduced to “Lake Wobegon” (inexplicably, not in this film!) many years ago on a long road trip through Colorado. I was instantly enchanted by the small, imaginary Minnesota town and it’s curmudgeonly residents…and to the soft, mellifluous, quicksilver voice of Garrison Keillor. I’ve been of fan of NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion” ever [...]

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They’ve done it again.
Cars is the latest in a long line of utterly delightful films. One of these days, the magicians at Pixar will make a bad movie–or even a mediocre one–but it hasn’t happened yet. Seven for seven and that’s not even counting their slew of Oscar-winning shorts.

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I remember when The Village came out, many were disappointed because they went into the theater expecting a horror film–after all, isn’t that what it was marketed as–and left having seen a stirring and absorbing commentary on the politics of fear. Those who were able to forget the way in which the film was sold [...]

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