Monthly Archives: February 2013

In sports and the military, “professionalism” describes people who go about their work, their duty, with a calm, dispassionate efficiency – no fuss, no panic when things go wrong, few mistakes, little attention paid to the odds, the chance for … Continue reading →

How’s this for timing? The Senate Intelligence Committee, which had injected itself into the Oscar race by deposing Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and others involved in the film in order to find out the source of their Killing Bin … Continue reading →

No. He didn’t win another Oscar for “Lincoln.” But let’s hope he’s not irked about that. The title of his new film, “Emperor,” has multiple meanings. Jones plays General Douglas MacArthur, who led Allied forces to victory in the Pacific … Continue reading →

Movie shoot-outs are often dazzling feats of marksmanship. Few filmmakers have the guts to show their version of “Gunfight at the OK Corral” the way such gunfights actually go down — dozens of rounds, most  missing the mark — pistols … Continue reading →

The Stoker house is in mourning. Widow Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) has crawled into a bottle, weeping. Teenage daughter India (Mia Wasikowska), already withdrawn from Mom, pulls further into her sullen shell. She hates to be touched, becomes even more of … Continue reading →

Visit any website devoted to British films and TV shows, and the talk’s been there for years. “When will they make a movie of ‘The Sweeney’?” And “Ray Winstone should play Regan.” “The Sweeney” is the iconic, gritty and violent … Continue reading →

More people watched the Academy Awards last night, as Variety reports that the Oscars had their best numbers since 2007. So the Academy, in hiring Seth MacFarlane, in spreading the honors to a lot of potential winners, found a formula … Continue reading →