Implausible Indy: Ike-Era Ford Fights Russians, Aliens

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Running Time 124 minutes
Written by David Koepp
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Starring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf

As summer time-wasters go, the latest Indiana Jones will go in record time, if you ask me. Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and Read More

Green Day: March 14, 2008

Read Steve Cohen’s take on the “greening” of the new Mets ballfield and a new green software-helper for Major Leage Baseball. [Steve Cohen]

Johnny Depp, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, and 50 Cent join forces to free Lolita from imprisonment. No, it’s not an action-adventure movie; it’s a benefit concert to free a whale from Read More

Hearty Harrison Still Does Stunts!

I guess everyone has to start somewhere, but a Bernard Malamud novel-into-film starring Snoop Dogg? To quote Dorothy Parker, “What fresh hell is this?” The 2006 kind, I’m afraid, that pretty much demonstrates how low movies have sunk in these desperate times. But let’s forget about The Tenants, a grim look at two bums fighting Read More

Temple of Doom

Things have a way of working themselves out around the holidays. Think of poor Harrison Ford and his soon-to-be ex-wife, screenwriter Melissa Mathison. Just when they thought their gilded Central Park West duplex would spend the cold winter stuck on the market, a buyer appears and signs a contract to buy the place.

It wasn’t Read More

Dining With Moira Hodgson

Chef Tadashi Ono Lightens Up,

But Doesn’t Dumb Down

Walk down a narrow flight of steps and through a small red door into a dark mezzanine bar; turn the corner, and whammo ! Entering Matsuri is like being on the set of Raiders of the Lost Ark -in Japan. A wide walnut staircase descends Read More