Movie Review: “The Butler” Serves Up Historical Farce on a Silver Platter
Read MoreThe Butler opens with an important disclosure: “Inspired by a True Story”
Which begs a few questions — what’s true and what’s not?
Read MoreThe Butler opens with an important disclosure: “Inspired by a True Story”
Which begs a few questions — what’s true and what’s not?
Read More“No” suffers from trying to be, and succeeding at, being far too realistic.
Read MoreBring up the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reactions typically vary from indifference to fanaticism — with little territory in between.
Indeed, the chasm of constructive dialogue is currently so narrow, that merely reducing tension in this long-troubled region would be considered a historic success. That’s how low the bar has been set. Stopping all violence is probably next to impossible. Achieving everlasting peace between Jews and Arabs seems like a starry-eyed fantasy.
Read MoreI’ve watched every Academy Awards presentation since 1972.
And without any doubt, I can say this is the very worst year for movies in more than four decades. Nonetheless, I’m still going to be watching and cheering come Sunday night.
Here are my picks and preferences for each of the major categories: