Movie Review: “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”
I’ll cut to the chase: “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” is the odds-on favorite to top my Worst Movies Of 2019 list. Writer/director Terry Gilliam had — for a long time — tried to make a contemporary re-telling of Miguel de...
Remembering “Psycho”
Last month, I wrote that the original trailer for the 1991 “Addams Family” movie was the greatest ever, because it teased without revealing — a concept long abandoned by Hollywood. Today, I offer another contender for the title of Greatest Movie...
As I Tweeted
Ok, the black hole has 6.5 million times the mass of our sun. That’s no excuse for astronomical fat-shaming. After all, it’s still only 1% as big as Trump’s...
A Glut Of Pens
We have a glut of writing implements in our house. My wife and I have been doing some spring cleaning and came upon a long-overlooked drawer filled with dozens of pens and pencils that belonged to my daughter. There was nothing fancy in there. We’re not the...
MYMNK: “Short Term 12”
The newest title on my Movies You Might Not Know list is “Short Term 12,” from 2013. It stars Brie Larson — before she won an Oscar for “Room” and then became “Captain Marvel” — as Grace, a worker at a group home for...