Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances By David Thomson (Knopf, 288 pages, $30) Eighty-two years old this month, David…
The other day, after watching the 2015 Swedish movie A Man Called Ove for the first time — an experience…
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree. Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to…
In an episode of the late, great sitcom The King of Queens, Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) and his wife, Carrie…
Many comedians root their humor in the images they’ve chosen to project. The premise of Jack Benny’s comedy was that…
As someone who has written movies and about the movies for some time, the current state of cinema makes me…
The promise of a new year is that we have another chance to start fresh and recommit ourselves to our…
The history of Hollywood is studded with failed attempts to adapt European films. Take Édouard Molinaro’s charming 1978 French-Italian comedy…
“Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind,” Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) tells the second-grader Susan Walker…
