Movie Vault: I am Legend, or Crazed Manhattan

Even though I’ve never been particularly sentimental about the end-of-year holidays, and belong to those who find the rampant commercialism of the season a cause for even more sociopathic behavior than is the norm, I found myself last night in a panic at the thought of showing up on Monday at my brother’s house in [...]

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Semester’s End!

Well, not really. I still have a couple of sessions and a final examination for my regression class, but I’m not very worried about that (perhaps foolishly so).The ‘true’ end of the semester came for me today as I handed in a paper for my stratification class, a breathless race to meet a hard-stop 12noon [...]

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Movie Vault: No End in Sight

Earlier this year a friend treated me to a Broadway play, David Hare’s The Vertical Hour. The play wasn’t exceptional, save for a fascinating performance by Bill Nighy (I found the New York Times review pretty much on the mark). Still, I thought of it last night after seeing Charles H. Ferguson’s acclaimed and prize-winning [...]

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Movie Vault: The Bourne Ultimatum

A 60-second review:
If you’ve read the entertainment section of any newspaper in the last couple of weeks, you probably know by now that the Bourne Ultimatum has been rated by critics and the general public alike to be a superior entertainment. I share in the consensus that it’s the best of the three Bourne films, [...]

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Transformations

A friend of mine - who, despite the fact that he’s almost 30 - adopted the persona of my 10-year old nephew and whined and wheedled me into going to see Transformers, the latest Michael Bay movie that…well, what can I say about it that you haven’t already heard? It’s been a disappointing summer for [...]

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