Acting Like Ourselves
What is your deepest secret? Can you share it with the people you love most? This is the theme of “City Island,” a wonderful little …
What is your deepest secret? Can you share it with the people you love most? This is the theme of “City Island,” a wonderful little …
Don’t you just hate those people down the street? The ones who have the flashiest new car, the latest electronic toys, the perfect decor, and …
“Oceans” is the second of an annual Earth Day movie release by Disney Studio’s new Disneynature label. The series is designed to draw attention to …
The opening of “Clash of the Titans” on Easter weekend seemed strangely appropriate. This is a movie in which a half-god, half-mortal hero fights the …
“Shutter Island” (Paramount Pictures, 2010, 137 minutes) has all the ingredients of a satisfyingly dark, psychological thriller: an isolated setting, ambiguous foreshadowing, surreal flashbacks, an …
Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” reminds us of the eternal nature of art. In the poem, Keats observes the scene depicted on an ancient …
When asked, during the open- ing moments of “The Ghost Writer,” whether he voted for the prime minister whose memoirs he has been hired to …
“The Book of Eli” will seem familiar to those who saw “The Road,” another post apocalyptic film (“After Armageddon,” March). Both movies are photographed with …
In “Crazy Heart” (directed by Scott Cooper, Butcher’s Run Films, 2010, 112 minutes), Bad Black (Jeff Bridges) is a country singer whose albums once topped …
According to “The Blind Side,” Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher was a homeless 17-year- old, sleeping in the school gym, wash- ing his one …