On our recent vacation, the Mrs. and I visited a local library in search of movies to watch at the ends of our sun-soaked and beach-weary days. One title that we happened across was the 2004 weeper The Notebook, which I had read at the time of its release to be a great romantic movie, [...]

“What you can’t change, you’ve just got to ride out.” – Ennis Del Mar
It seems strange that upon the death of a young promising actor that we’ll hear so much talk about a wasted future and the impact on box office grosses, but there it is.
I am utterly amazed by the thought that someone, somewhere, [...]

As we count down the final days to Hollywood’s Big Night of Backslapping, the Best Picture Crash vs. Brokeback debate continues and continues some more. So we figure it’s as great a time as any – and also because we’re embarassingly only now getting around to it – to take another look at Ang Lee’s [...]

Some excellent, regular-Joe film commentary can be found at Flickskinny.com (via Hollywood Elsewhere) – and the fact that it’s delivered via hilariously scribbled comic strips (that’s a small excerpt of Brokeback on the left) is just short of brilliant. Be sure to check out their big archive of film reviews.
Wish these guys would do some [...]

Make as much fun as you’d like at the expense of the Golden Globes Awards and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association that bestows them, but the fact is that the Academy Awards are right around the corner, and the Globes do exert a certain amount of influence on their much-more-self-important Big Golden Brothers.
Does that mean [...]

Even if you were to pull a bunch of out-of-context quotes from this recent account of Sir Elton John’s wedding day, I feel reasonably certain that my father would listen to them only while squirming uncomfortably in his ancient leather easy chair. So instead, I will excerpt the most problematic items here, as a service [...]