Movie Review: “The Extra Man”
If you are one of the very rare people who saw Paul Schrader’s film, “The…
Author Bob Westal
Movie Review: “Get Low”
With long hair and a never-trimmed beard, Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is the kind of…
Movie Review: “Another Year”
There are happy people and there are miserable people. What makes some of us a…
Movie Review: “High and Low”
How’s this for a moral dilemma? You’re an up-by-his-bootstraps industrialist at war with your corporate…
Movie Review: “Stagecoach”
It was very, very far from being the first Hollywood Western, nor is it necessarily…
Movie Review: “Ride with the Devil”
In 1951, the Southern American Nobel laureate William Faulkner wrote: “The past is never dead;…
Movie Review: “The Joneses”
Children might fear bogeymen or ghosts (or, in the case of this writer’s son, gorillas),…
Movie Review: “Cop Out”
As bad buddy cop comedies go, “Cop Out” is perhaps one of the better ones.…
Movie Review: “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
A once influential theatrical artist with a flair for surreal provocation and a madcap sense…
Movie Review: “Paranormal Activity”
The hype around “Paranormal Activity” is more than justified, but it still isn’t much more…