NO RESERVATIONS
Running Time 105 minutes
Written By Carol Fuchs and Sandra Nettelbeck
Directed By Scott Hicks
Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin
At the movies, there’s nothing much to write home about, but I enjoyed the embrace of No Reservations, an unnecessary but somewhat charming Read More
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Daniel Libeskind may have sold city and state officials on his design for Ground Zero, but the clubby world of New York architects has not exactly welcomed him into the fold.
Witness the recent hoo-hah over Columbia University’s search for a new dean of architecture, a spot for which Mr. Libeskind is widely rumored Read More
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Contrarian that I am, I like Hollywood movies about Hollywood. I tend to give the genre the benefit of the doubt, despite the traditional box-office resistance to movies about movie people, because what else do filmmakers know as well? Besides, some of the best movies have taken this Pirandellian posture, most notably Billy Wilder’s Sunset Read More
