Dir. Warren Beatty. Starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson When I first started this blog, one of the categories I knew I wanted to include was “Losing Steam,” for movies that began with a rush, reach a fabulous climax, and then peter out for one reason or another. Two movies immediately came to mind… Read More Reds (1981)
(Link to the song here) In just about every musical that wants to be one, there is a song that comes on late in the show and is made to make you hurt a little. Not everyone has to agree on the song in question – in Miss Saigon, is that song Kim’s last lullaby… Read More “The I Love You Song,” from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005)
Dir. Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. Starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz Shrek, when it came out, was an enormous breath of fresh air. Like dawn going down to day, the Disney Renaissance had ended two years before with Tarzan, in my mind one of the more uneven features of that group. Dinosaur and… Read More Shrek (2001)
I used to write about Glee. Some of you may remember the blog I used to have, and how I wrote thousands of words a week to review each episode the day after it aired. It was the show that introduced me, via “the 3 Glees,” to a world of film and television criticism that… Read More Glee S1E1, “Pilot”
Seeing Things Secondhand 