
Film: The Skeleton Twins
I have a soft spot for stories about broken people trying to hold each other together, which goes some…
October 17, 2020I have a soft spot for stories about broken people trying to hold each other together, which goes some…
October 17, 2020The Ghostbusters (2016) reboot has stirred plenty of controversy, but ultimately for me it raised one question: is it…
July 24, 2016Based on Andy Weir’s bestselling novel, The Martian (2015) proves that with some Hollywood blockbusters, even when you have no…
October 10, 2015Sometimes you watch a movie just for the cast, and writer-director Jennifer Westfeldt’s Friends with Kids (2011) has a…
November 12, 2012To say I watched the film Paul (2011) the other day is probably an overstatement. More like, I put…
July 20, 2012Kristen Wiig has been the best thing about Saturday Night Live for years, and Bridesmaids (2011) proves she deserves…
June 1, 2011Women finally get a transcendence-through-sport film in the Rocky vein with Whip It (2009), an often funny if largely…
March 8, 2010I generally can’t stomach awards shows. I mean, they’re usually self-congratulatory, and gaudy, and uncomfortable, and full of tiresome…
September 24, 2009