What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? As it happens, this is a very good film about a family beset not only with a retarded son/brother, but a reclusive mother of Brobdingnagian proportions …
Movie Recommendations
Pumping Iron
Pumping Iron The very best artistic endeavors are those that change your view of the world by showing you things in a way you might not have previously considered. …
Somewhere in Time
Somewhere in Time I’m not being falsely immodest when I tell you that I am as cynical as they come. I abhor cheap sentimentality and patently manipulated bathos, which (partially) …
Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor I put that title in quotes for a reason. After years of enduring the opprobrium of the house critic (my wife) that my novels are …
The In-Laws
The In-Laws There’s funny and there’s funny. First is the belly-laugh kind (Caddyshack, Airplane!), replete with clever one-liners and sight gags, pleasant diversions of little substance. Then there are the …
My Blue Heaven
My Blue Heaven There’s funny and there’s funny. First is the belly-laugh kind (Caddyshack, Airplane!), replete with clever one-liners and sight gags, pleasant diversions of little substance. Then there are …
Raising Arizona
Raising Arizona There’s funny and there’s funny. First is the belly-laugh kind (Caddyshack, Airplane!), replete with clever one-liners and sight gags, pleasant diversions of little substance. Then there are the …
The Twelve Chairs
The Twelve Chairs There’s funny and there’s funny. First is the belly-laugh kind (Caddyshack, Airplane!), replete with clever one-liners and sight gags, pleasant diversions of little substance. Then there are …
The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone Wait! Come back here! What is it about science fiction that gives it such a bad rap, to the point that mere mention of that label will …
Starman
Starman & Forbidden Planet Wait! Come back here! What is it about science fiction that gives it such a bad rap, to the point that mere mention of that label …