6+ hour, 7+ min ago   (907+ words) No major motion picture as mediocre as “Practical Magic 2” deserves the emotional response this film sometimes generates. It’s released 28 years after the original film, with its two stars — Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman –– having collected Academy Awards in the interim....

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (665+ words) I can’t say that one of my favorite filmmakers, Paul Greengrass, made the wisest decision in trying to make a famous “Off with their heads!” peasants’ rebellion the basis for the legend of Robin Hood. The legend seems to date…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (493+ words) It turns out, putting the two dudes who scripted “The Hangover” (and “Bad Moms”) in charge of writing and directing a midlife crisis moms at a spa farce wasn’t the smartest move ever. “Spa Weekend” — a title as colorless as…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1136+ words) It’s hard to remember how “out there” Ross McElwee’s landmark “personal journey” documentary “Sherman’s March” was in 1985. A confessional, cutesie, creepy and revealing snapshot of the South and one privileged movie maker’s revisiting of his romantic past and revelation of…...