Category Archives: reviews

This weekend we watched the original version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. I was very interested to see how it would be different from the 2009 version with Denzel Washington and John Travolta. I like the remake, but … Continue reading →

I’ve mostly used this forum to write about films I like– to promote good films people might not otherwise see, although not always. Because sometimes, as with Clint Eastwood, I just don’t get it. Or I get something in a … Continue reading →

While in Palm Springs, we attended three shows at the Palm Springs Film Festival. The best of the three was Fish Tank, directed by Andrea Arnold. It’s her second film, and I was already a big fan of her first … Continue reading →

The film Away We Go is not, I don’t think, your average hip, Sundance-y independent film. There’s nothing particularly great about it. The main characters, played by Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski, aren’t very unusual or compelling. If anything, the … Continue reading →

I’ve restarted my subscription to the Library of America after about a 10-year lapse. I get a beautiful, hard-cover, slip-cased volume every six weeks, and only the ones I’ve checked that I want from their complete inventory. It’s part of … Continue reading →

Last night, sort of by default, Steve and I watched Unforgiven. Neither of us had seen it before, and it’s been more than 15 years since it came out. I am a big fan of Westerns and the Western genre, … Continue reading →

While the three guys kept at the chicken plucking, Steve and I headed off to Edina to see Bright Star, Jane Campion’s new film that completely rehabilitates John Keats. This is no blond, curly-headed, pale, frail frilly-shirt-wearing, consumptive, sissy-poet John … Continue reading →

I have to open with a SPOILER ALERT. I want to discuss in this entry a documentary and a play I saw last weekend, both of which took up pretty much the same issue in more or less the same … Continue reading →