If we’re lucky, the summer movie season offers up at least one sturdy shark thriller that isn’t a Syfy-branded exercise in schlock. Last year it was The Shallows, a slickly …
Central Cinema launches crowd-funding campaign for independent movie theater in Happy Holler
Last month, Coury Turczyn reported on plans for an independent repertory movie theater in Happy Holler—that is, a locally owned and locally programmed single-screen cinema showing classic movies and new …
‘Wonder Woman’ embraces fun—and feminism
It’s one of the coolest origin stories in the history of comics: In the early ’40s, famed psychologist, lie detector co-inventor, and occasional Gillette razor spokesman William Moulton Marston was …
Wonder Woman: A Hero for Our Time
Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins (Monster), is likely to be the best-reviewed DC film since The Dark Knight, in 2008. But what will give this movie a place in …
A fan’s tribute to Roger Moore
Dear Roger Moore, Like most moviegoers, I first crossed paths with you in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die. I had almost given up on Bond, to …