Monday: Prison Break
Monday night brings the "Fall finale" of the Fox serial, and frankly, it can’t come soon enough. In what has become a weekly ritual, we DVR Prison Break on Mondays; watch it on Tuesdays; and then furiously email with our friends about how gloriously stupid and terrible it is for the Read More
Monday: In the Line of Fire
With Gran Torino burning up the box office in limited release, it’s clear that people can’t get enough of Clint Eastwood. So it might be a good time to revisit him in Wolfgang Petersen’s 1993 film, In the Line of Fire. The thriller should be as hackneyed Read More
Jimmy Stewart never struck us as all that nice. There were, sure, the poems he’d read about pints of milk or his dog named Beau on Johnny Carson. (Sample verse: "He bit lots of folks from day to day,/ The delivery boy was his favorite prey.") But that was when he was so old Read More
Posterity, and many high-end critics, seem to have simultaneously arrived at the general proposition that the greatest male star of the golden age was Cary Grant. He was, after all, both sexy and a superb comedian—the rarest combination in movies. And he contrived to almost always play variations on Cary Grant, which is the main Read More
Posterity, and many high-end critics, seem to have simultaneously arrived at the general proposition that the greatest male star of the golden age was Cary Grant. He was, after all, both sexy and a superb comedian—the rarest combination in movies. And he contrived to almost always play variations on Cary Grant, which is the main Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
In 1959–when Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe were red-hot–one of the finest and most important American films was released, did well, won an award or two (like the New York Film Critics’ selection of James Stewart as best actor) and then passed from the scene. Read More
