Review: ‘A Little Help’
How quickly can recent history pass the threshold into a period, a point that we can evaluate with the necessary …
Category Archives: Black Eye
Review: ‘Beginners’
Oliver (Ewan McGregor) shares his story with us. His father Hal (Christopher Plummer) comes out in his 70s, after 44 …
Review: ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’
After being subjected to a scathing critical bashing for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (including harsh words from Megan Fox, …
Review: ‘Buck’
In the preface to the 1975 edition of Animal Liberation, ethics philosopher Peter Singer shared the story of an evening …
Rubber and Death Tear Up Small Screens
To pull a quote from the poet laureate of Farmer’s Boulevard, L.L. Cool J, the DVD summer warm-up offers “destruction, …
Review: ‘The Tree of Life’
The Tree of Life opens with a bit of Scripture (Job 38:4, 7), which asks, “Where were you when I …
Review: ‘Bicycle Dreams’
This year marks the 30th anniversary run of the Race Across America (RAAM), a grueling bicycle endurance race that finds …
Heating Up Screens, Big and Small
Cincinnati native (a sometimes forgotten fact) Steven Spielberg is the Godfather of Summer, much like James Brown was the Godfather …
Review: ‘Midnight in Paris’
Back in 2002, during the junket for I Spy, Owen Wilson appeared distracted. As he fielded questions, he took long …
Non-Bummer Summer Picks
Hollywood has been trying to convince audiences the summer movie season starts in late April/early May for years now, and …
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