retro trailer: ‘Brian’s Song’

Take a look back at an old trailer… It’s the world’s only football chick flick, this “tough, tender, and true story” of Sonny Corleone and Lando Calrissian forcibly integrating the sleeping arrangements of an NFL team, which their love for each other and Sonny’s surprise pregnancy inspires them to do. That is what it’s about, … more…

When in Rome (review)

Hello, *sigh*! Enough of those “smart” romantic comedies that force down our throats the preposterous notions that women can be competent at work — sorta — without being idiots at everything else, or that men can ever be adults, or that humiliating old ladies and priests isn’t hilarious.

The Men Who Stare at Goats (review)

I’m not sure if I’ve seen a more sublimely funny moment on screen this year than the one in which George Clooney, in all deep serious earnestness, tries to convince Ewan McGregor that he — McGregor, that is — is a Jedi warrior.