Silly and loveable, Parental Guidance hits me at a critical blind spot. It’s an entertaining piece of craft that harkens back to the silly post-Latchkey kid Chr...
Not all short films should be given the feature length treatment. What works on a small, concise scale often finds itself expanded beyond its capabilities, not ...
It appears it was only a matter of time before author Lee Child -- or Jim Grant to his parents -- saw the sole protagonist of his life's work on the big screen....
Perhaps the best advice on marriage is that you shouldn’t marry someone whom you can’t spend three days next to on a train. But as The Guilt Trip highlights, yo...
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together.” That line is left out of Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, but it permeates ev...
It's time to accept that the words "Directed by Judd Apatow" are synonymous with "sentimental familial dramedy littered by profanity." I probably should have co...
Since its Broadway premiere 25 years ago, Hollywood has been trying to figure out how to monetize the hit musical Les Miserables, based on Victor Hugo's novel, ...
Tchoupitoulas (pronounced CHOP-it-TOO-luhs), an engaging documentary named after the boisterous street in New Orleans that sits closest to the Mississippi River...
Since his ultra-low budget debut The Brothers McMullen in 1995, actor/writer/director Edward Burns has carved out a niche for himself as a filmmaker. And thoug...
Few things are more universal than the plight of the teenager. Whether it's in an upper-class gated community, a packed city block or a small desert town in Sou...
