An awful lot of my childhood was spent immersed in Walt Disney’s stories and movies. My bedtime picture books were all from Disney movies, and a lot of what I watched early on were Disney classics like SNOW WHITE, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and PINOCCHIO (which was the first movie I ever watched on a big…
AIR GUITAR NATION
If you’ve ever listened to rock and roll, at one point you’ve played an imaginary guitar to an imaginary audience. You might be a geek, a loser, and utterly musically talentless…but for three minutes or so, you are Eddie Van Halen. You are Eric Clapton. You are Slash, Edge, and Flea all rolled into one.…
GONE BABY GONE
Have you ever read a mystery novel where the case seems to be wrapping up, but you still have a good hundred pages to go? Every marker is in place that the puzzle is about to be completed, but even though all the pieces fit – you’re left thinking that the picture is wrong. That’s…
Doubleback: WAITRESS
On the surface, WAITRESS is a movie about life, love, and loss in a small middle-America town. Below the crust though, it touches on the sadness of people who find themselves stuck in a rut they gradually slipped into…and now long to climb out of, if only they could figure out how. You could call…
Doubleback : LA VIE EN ROSE
Edit: I mentioned last week that I felt movies I don’t get to see in a theatre are ones I shouldn’t write a full-out review for. Still, there are a lot of titles I miss catching the first time around that I want to share a thought or two about. These movies are the ones…