Everyone agrees the perfect dog has certain qualities that make him Man’s Best Friend: loyalty, strength, good temperament, intelligence, obedience. As a kid, I held Lassie up as the model for the perfect family dog: Trapped in the […]
Opening the same day as Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, and carrying the same self-importance and baggage, American Sniper is the unambiguous biography of real-life war hero Chris Kyle, at one time referred to as the “most […]
Charade is a fine bottle of 1963 French romantic-comedy that has aged with the same charm and class as its leading man and lady, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. From the opening titles, you know you’ve […]
The paintings of Margaret Keane are familiar even to those who have no interest in art whatsoever. You know what they are: those slightly creepy little kids with the cavernous, oversized eyes; kind of like a […]
From the moment Unbroken’s opening sequence soars onto the screen, you can feel the audience in rapt attention. It’s World War II, and an American bomber is on a mission over the Pacific Ocean, coming […]
I watched Into the Woods with my wife, who is not a Sondheim fan, and had never seen the musical or known much about it, but she is a lover of fairy tales, so she is […]
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