Perspectives from a Professor
I had been looking forward to Brothers based on director Jim Sheridan’s track record – he’s probably best known for My Left Foot and In America. Brothers is a remake of a Danish film, and Hollywood creative types often blunder by making these remakes too glossy in ways that diminish the effort. Not this time. …
This is a new show worth checking out! Men of a Certain Age has been on TNT for two weeks – you can catch the first episodes online – and airs Mondays at 10 p.m. Ray Romano, Andre Braugher (still miss seeing him from Homicide: Life on the Street, and it’s been off the air …
Before you get overwhelmed with the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, let me encourage you to sit back and take another look at It’s A Wonderful Life. You might have a DVD copy at home, but December 8 and 9 you can see this Christmas classic on the big screen at 1:30 p.m. …
Friday Night Lights is one of my favorite TV series of all time. The fourth season of the celebrated show is currently airing on DIRECTV and will be broadcast on NBC after the first of the year when its subscription service run is finished. I have seen the first four episodes of season four, and …
When I heard that Robert Zemeckis was bringing A Christmas Carol to the big screen in animated 3-D, all I could think was how interminable I found his earlier adaptation of The Polar Express. Yikes! I was also a little dubious about Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge. Carrey is an incredibly gifted performer, but his …
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