There’s no Pat Sajak or Vanna White anywhere near the spinning Wheel of Fortune in “Carmina Burana.” No, the fickle wheel is more about good luck and bad, love and loss, and win or...
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History (or lack thereof) at the movies. Two movies with historical themes opened this week, aimed at very different audiences. But neither are likely to thrill history teachers. Mr. Peabody and...
Stalingrad Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk “Stalingrad” is an interesting film and subject matter, on multiple levels, although much like the recent “The Monuments Men” it may actually be more...
Pompeii Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson Was it really necessary for this movie to be such crap? Director/producer Paul W.S. Anderson is known for fantasy/sci fi action movies that are light on...
3 Days to Kill Directed by McG Buried deep inside “3 Days to Kill” is a good film, or at least the potential for a good film, desperately trying to escape the awful mess. It’s a complicated film, not...
Gimme Shelter Directed by Ron Krause Of two classically bad January openings this week, this is the less enjoyable of the two because it’s simply bad. Whereas the other (“I Frankenstein”) is so bad...
Her Written and Directed by Spike Jonze I was out of town last week and, in all honestly, I also mixed up a couple of release dates and so I’m a little late to the party in terms of discussing Spike...
August: Osage County Directed by John Wells One of the interesting outcomes of awards season “big” movies is that they often play major festivals or open earlier in Los Angeles and New York and so...
Saving Mr. Banks Directed by John Lee Hancock This is my favorite movie of the holiday week, for sheer fun and entertainment. It tells the (mostly true) story of the encounters between Walt Disney...
Josh Groban is a charming guy. At his concert Sunday night at Sleep Train Arena, the boyishly handsome singer had the audience in the palm of his hands, wowing with his velvety vocals and...