Authorship of the young-adult novel I Am Number Four is credited to a certain “Pittacus Lore.” If you have a faint suspicion of a pseudonym, bravo to you—the name represents a collaboration...
For the shortest month in the calendar, we ask a lot of February. It’s devoted to love, and to commemorating our great presidents, and once every few years we ask it to...
Flowers wilt. Candy endangers the waistline. Jewelry endangers the credit card.
But a good romantic movie can make for a world-class Valentine’s Day.
Choosing the right Valentine’s movie is an art, however. Every taste...
One of the signs that you’re a true movie star may be when you get cast in a classic role for which you seem completely wrong.
Not many actors strike me as less...
At this writing I still haven’t seen Harry Potter and the Receding Hairline, or whatever this one is called. But I did get to attend a demonstration of the latest technological marvel...
Runaway locomotives have a long and noble history in movies, and I've been a fan at least since the TV movie Runaway! back in 1973. Since then, I've enjoyed the premise in...
October at last! It’s my favorite month in the Valley because it’s the one in which summer begins to give up her stubbornness, and my favorite month anywhere because it’s the month...
The title of Oliver Stone’s new film is Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. For all I know, that may be true—my relationship with Money, to date, hasn’t been intimate enough to say....
