Rebel Without a Cause: Forever Young

James Dean. Photo: Warner Every time I watch this movie it's impossible not to think about the heartbreaking tragedies that ended the lives of its three young stars. This was…

Johnny English Reborn 

After a major scandal sent top intelligence agent Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) into retirement, he's brought back several years later to stop a plot to assassinate the Chinese Premier. Was…

Fruitvale Station: End of a Year and a Life

Michael B. Jordan and Ariana Neal. Photo: The Weinstein Company Fruitvale Station has become this year's Beasts of the Southern Wild. Much like that film, it came out of the…

Gravity: More Science, Less Hollywood

Sandra Bullock. Photo: Warner Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and the most famous person working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, was surprised the other day to…

Chicago: City of Scoundrels

Catherine Zeta-Jones. Photo: Miramax Premiere once named this as one of the 20 most overrated films of all time. My take is different: Chicago is the greatest screen musical of…

Lethal Weapon: Not Too Old for This Shit

Danny Glover and Mel Gibson. Photo: Warner I have happy memories from my life as a teenager in the early 1990s, in love with the great action movies of the…

The World’s End 

Ne'er-do-well Gary King (Simon Pegg) gathers his old friends for a pub crawl in their hometown of Newton Haven, little dreaming that they'll get wrapped up in a global battle……

Tootsie: Dressed to Kill

Sydney Pollack and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: Columbia In the late 1990s, I was studying English in college when one of our teachers organized a reading of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance…

Insidious: Chapter 2 

After the events of the first film, the Lamberts move into Lorraine's (Barbara Hershey) house for a while, but they're closer to danger than they can imagine. The same year…

Meet Me in St. Louis: Home Sweet Home

Judy Garland. Photo: MGM There was drama behind the scenes of Meet Me in St. Louis, one of the best-loved nostalgia pieces of the early 1940s. Judy Garland reportedly found…