I suppose most people have burgers and hot dogs and pools and fireworks and I enjoy all those things, but my 4th of July tradition is to...

2004 happened to be a surprising year at the movies for offbeat comedies. I’m thinking specifically of Jared & Jerusha Hess’  Napoleon...

Whenever I contemplate who America’s dramatic masters are, my answer is always Eugene O’Neill and Edward Albee. The reason for this is...

I was perhaps in my junior year of high school when the news broke that, after many years of speculation and debate, Thomas Jefferson,...

Christopher Durang was a playwright and actor from Montclair, New Jersey. He wrote the plays Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony...

This list includes my Oscar predictions for the upcoming ceremony. The choices are not necessarily who/what I think should win, but...

At one time, the Oscars were my Super Bowl. As young as sixth grade, I would watch them and dream of my own shining moment when I would...

One need only look at the output from Walt Disney Studios in the 1960s and see that, progressively, Walt was less and less interested in...

While during his lifetime, his work became more and more critically derided, there has been a resurgence of interest in American...

** out of **** We find ourselves in that time of year where films in which studios have no faith are dumped on the American public. The...

While I will stipulate that the story of Christ’s birth is perhaps the Greatest Story Ever Told, I maintain that Charles Dickens’ A...

I thought I had picked out the perfect week to take my vacation. The third week of October, I said, would be my favorite kind of...

Last week, like countless others, I was moved by the death of Michael Gambon, a British actor who did amazing things onstage and off. As...

To appropriate a quote from Tennessee Williams, “Sometimes—there’s Godot—so quickly!” But also, sometimes, life just happens, and you...

Prefatory Note: I acknowledge I can never understand the suffering women have experienced and continue to experience in instances of...

It’s been twenty laugh-filled years with what has been called “the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” In 2003, the owner of an irregular...

I was a prude. I really was. Well, perhaps prude is the wrong word. But I remember in sixth grade, one of our fellow classmates telling...

For this final week of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I conclude celebrating my mentor and teacher David Henry...

In 1994, I took a pad and pen with me to the movies. I was ten or so and I wanted to keep notes and “review” them, just like Siskel &...

I came of age going to the movies at the turn of the century. In 1999, I was finally old enough to see R-rated movies and my friend and I...