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Hollywood holiday film fare

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How is it the holidays already? Wasn’t it just summer? Well, the box office will still be hot, as Hollywood rolls out its holiday treats. Here is a look at what’s coming to area theaters through the end of the year (release dates and titles are subject to change). “Like Crazy” – This Sundance Film [...]

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Interview With Mardo Williams' Daughters Kay & Jerri, Co-Authors of "One Last Dance"

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Mardo had a distinguished career as journalist and author (for which he won an Ohioana Library Award). After he completed most of the first draft of "One Last Dance" he asked his daughters Kay and Jerri to finish the book if he could not. He died a few weeks later. His daughters honored his wishes. [...]

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Well, he is none other than Bappi Lahiri, the man who pioneered the use of disco music in Hindi cinema.Son of Aparesh and Bansari Lahiri and related to the legendary singer Kishore Kumar, Bappi revolutionised music in Bollywood. Born in a Bengali family (his father was a well known Bengali singer and mother a musician), [...]

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You know the face. but you may not know that actor James Hong, who voices Panda's papa, grew up in Minneapolis

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The animated "Kung Fu Panda 2" is set in a fairy-tale China but James Hong's character has his origins in downtown Minneapolis. You may not recognize Hong's name, but you surely recognize his face (even though it's not visible in "Panda," where he plays the father of Jack Black's title character). The Minneapolis native estimates [...]

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6 Impossible Things Before Breakfast

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Alice in Wonderland (2010) has been a long-awaited adaptation of the children's book by Lewis Carroll. most people are familiar with this story, being a classic and a children's favorite. however, the 2010 version is special, as it is edgier and somewhat darker. Directed by Tim Burton, it boasts of a star-studded cast such as [...]

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Juno – The Lessons in Life

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I went to see the movie "Juno" with my best friend the other day. While it wasn't a movie that showed particularly realistic acting or extreme special effects (both of which I like), it struck a chord with me. 16-year-old Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), after three pregnancy tests, is finally convinced she is almost nine [...]

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The Tale of the Jumping Serpents of Bosnia (Revised and Reedited 7/2008)

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Along the coast of the Adriatic Sea lives what now is called the "poskok,' better known as the 'Jumping Serpent'. these creatures are some five-feet long and to my understanding can jump some three feet in the air and leap some five-feet in any direction they wish, simply by aiming at whatever, wherever. But this [...]

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"Coraline" Movie Review

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"Coraline" (quality rating: 8 out of 10) (animation) Director: Henry Selick Screenplay: Henry Selick, based on the 2002 Neil Gaiand children's horror novel Voices: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Dawn French, Ian McShane Time: 1 hr., 41 min. Rating: PG (highly disturbing plot elements, terrifying images, some vulgarity, suggestive humor) Animation visual imagination of the first [...]

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Movie Review – True Grit

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With True Grit the Coen Brotehrs' play to a genre for the first time in their long and exemplary career but when it's the Coens, even the straight and simple Western undergoes a transformation. 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) has lost her father and the law of the land is too lazy and too busy [...]

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Chuck 4.21 "Chuck Versus The Wedding Planner" Review

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I've got two words that come to mind with this week's Chuck: Gary Cole. While he's a fine dramatic actor (I still miss Wanted and to a lesser extent, Crusade), Gary Cole is always going to be Bill Lumbergh from Office Space to me. He's got great comedic ability that makes everyone around him funnier, [...]

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Trailer Watch: Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life

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Terrence Malick's new film, The Tree of Life, was apparently booed (and applauded) at Cannes, putting it in a (probably) small group of films that includes Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, Vincent Gallo's execrable Brown Bunny, and Michelangelo Antonioni’s astoundingly beautiful L'Avventura. Manohla Dargis describes Tree as a "a beautiful if hermetic vision," though, which — [...]