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I can't tell you how thrilled I am that, for three weeks in a row, The Hunger Games has topped the Hollywood box office. For awhile there, I was afraid audiences might not embrace a movie in which 24 children are forced to stab, shoot, and snap the necks of one another. Whew!
We're a couple of months away from the release of Whitney Houston's last movie, Sparkle and now that I've seen the trailer, I feel a kind of sadness, and maybe even anger, that I didn't really experience even when she died.
The last time I reviewed a movie with Julia Roberts in it, I rather unkindly compared her to Sylvester Stallone, who also had a flick opening that weekend (they are both, I observed, mostly about their eyes and lips). I felt badly afterward (but not very), because I'd really like to see Roberts in…
Some 45 million Americans identify themselves as Irish-weird, when you consider only six million people live on the whole of Erin's Isle-but perhaps that explains why so many classic movies have an Irish focus.
In the last years of his life, Walt Disney had a Friday evening ritual: His studio songwriters, Robert and Richard Sherman, would slip into his office to chat awhile. Soon Walt would walk to the north window, gaze out, and say simply, "Play it."
Well, I hope you're satisfied. Martin Scorsese's Hugo arrived on DVD and BluRay this week, and at that moment you missed out on any chance that you'll ever get to see it the way it was meant to be experienced: On a floor-to-ceiling movie theater screen in glorious 3-D.
Are you as sick and tired as I am of hearing about how this year's Oscars skewed so old? You know: the host was old, the winners were old, the classic movie were old...
Every year my extended family and I have a nationwide Academy Awards Pick 'em. We sit through the ceremony, dutifully checking off actual winners versus our predictions, and then we honor the most accurate prognosticator with congratulatory e-mails.
Where were you? Fifty years ago this week, my whole kindergarten class gathered in Mrs. Kipp's room to hear the news reports as John Glenn became the first American to soar into orbit (no classroom TVs in those days-a transistor radio did the job).
So, I've been doing this Movies for Grownups radio show for eight years, and every week I prowl the web looking for audio clips that'll make it sound, you know, interesting. The thing is, I never, ever throw any of this stuff out. So now I have hours and hours of the most random sound samples you…