[Family Friend]: I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. [Family Friend]: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. [Family Friend]: “Plastics.” –“Benjamin,” Dustin Hoffman’s character in “The Graduate,” getting post-college career advice from a family friend. Without giving anything away, suffice to say that “plastic” also figures significantly...Read More
What’s on the Crumpled Green Post-It Note?? With all the cameo’s and NFL game footage, it’s hard to tell where the fictional “Draft Day” ends and the (just-concluded) real Draft Day begins. Suffice to say that the multiple plot lines are reasonably suspenseful, and the movie is a fun way to spend two hours —...Read More
Splattered Spaghetti As much as I’ve enjoyed other Quentin Tarantino films — “Pulp Fiction” immediately springs to mind — it’s hard to relax, let alone enjoy watching a film when you don’t know which man, woman, child, or horse(!) is going to get its head blown off next. Yes, horses: there are so many equine...Read More
Moist Eyes: Setting the Record Straight My wife thinks I was tearing up because of how heart-wrenching the movie was. That, it was. However, after almost 3 continuous hours in my seat, my eyes were moist for a completely different reason: I really, really had to go the bathroom. P.S.: My favorite jab at thrice-married...Read More
Headed the Wrong Way Despite the pairing of a winsome Emily Blunt and amiable Jason Segal, “The Five Year Engagement” can’t overcome a desultory plot line about a relationship headed the wrong way. When the movie opens, the romantic leads are happily ensconced in the Bay Area — he as a sous chef at an up-and-coming San...Read More
“Except for That, Mrs. Lincoln Ms. Dargis . . .” * After all the sugar-coated reviews that bear no resemblance to the actual movie, you gotta love this take on Tyler Perry’s newest effort, “Alex Cross,” courtesy of The New York Times’ Manohla Dargis: “A grim, dispiritingly stupid waste of time, energy, money and talent. In order to sucker anyone...Read More
