A year and a half ago, I reviewed the first season of Fuller House for this site. Despite enjoying the throwback, I was ultimately unimpressed with the fact that it was just a more adult version of the...
First they came for the stilettos….
Just before Christmas the media were agog with an allegedly brand-new trend: women throwing away their high heels in the wake of the flurry of revelations of...
Naomi Schaefer Riley’s new book, Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat, will be published January 8, 2018.
“Let’s go bowling!” my son suggested...
Casablanca never could have been made today.
The classic movie, which turned seventy-five this year, features themes that would never fly in today’s world: that personal happiness is not the most...
Without a doubt, the best film that I saw in 2017 is Darkest Hour.
Trailer: Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement), and starring the incomparable Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, this is historically...
Two copies of A Christmas Carol, both illustrated, and four different film adaptations, one animated and one featuring Muppets, sit in my parents’ living room. My father, the patron of this Christmas...
This year, many arts and entertainment pages justifiably celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of West Side Story and the indelible impact it made on our culture. To understand why these...
I hold a lot of controversial pop culture opinions. I think Friends is unfunny, Beyoncé is vastly overrated, and The Force Awakens is the best Star Wars installment. I am completely prepared to...
Christmas is around the corner, and its critics are out again. No, they’re not making coffee cups red or forcing your children to say “Happy Holidays.” But they are coopting the traditions...
The Disaster Artist was one of the best and, surprisingly, most well-balanced movies I’ve seen in awhile. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly encourage you to—but only after you watch...
The Crown, an original series on Netflix, is extraordinary viewing, especially for those who understand the captivating power of history. The truth is always stranger than fiction, and that adage is on...
“Is Wonder realistic?” I asked my son when we returned from seeing the movie last night. The two fourth grade boys and the two fifth grade girls who accompanied me had all read and loved the...
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age film set in Sacramento, California, is dazzling audiences as much as it’s dazzled critics. Despite its limited release four weeks ago in arty theaters,...
A few days ago, I entered a local contest to win tickets to see the Swedish movie, The Square. I actually won, and given my love of Scandinavian culture and knowing that the movie won an award at the Cannes...
This year, an unusual movie composed entirely of original oil paintings by over 125 artists had its premiere. Called Loving Vincent, it focuses on the aftermath of the death of Vincent Van Gogh and is...
Most people know the civil rights warrior Thurgood Marshall as the first black judge to sit on the United States Supreme Court. Few know the details of the legal slog he had to endure in the years beforehand.
When...
For the next few days, The Princess Bride, the iconic indie-film-turned-blockbuster that turns thirty years old this year will be playing in select theaters. Has it really been that long since we met handsome,...
In Jeannette Walls’ best-selling memoir, The Glass Castle, she recounts burning down an abandoned shack with her brother, the result of a failed experiment involving matches and hazardous waste....
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow has made two of the better films of the past decade. Both The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty were commercial and critical successes. Both dealt with complex topics—modern...
One of the big questions surrounding the dazzling CGI spectacle that is Matt Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes is why do (human) viewers spend the entire two hours and twenty-two minutes rooting...
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