Don't Bother
[See “Entry from August 6, 2008” under “My Diary”]
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Having once lived in the area served by Channel 6 (Harrisburg, York, Lancaster, Lebanon), where Russ Richards (John Travolta) works as celebrity weather man in Nora Ephron’s amusing Lucky Numbers, I can assure you that not everybody in Central Pennsylvania is a moron. Nor would anyone but a supercilious Hollywood type suppose that “Harrisburg’s most…
An inspiring account of a coach’s dedication and a high school football team’s success which rather underplays its chief insight into the importance of character
I expected Enemy of the State, directed by Tony Scott, to be one more document in the tedious succession of conspiracy-theory movies that has pretty much dominated Hollywood’s view of politics since the 1970s. It is that, certainly. Once again, a rogue official of the government controls a vast army of sinister intent and apparently…
A bizarre movie that looks like a vanity project for Robin Wright Penn, who gets to chew the scenery as a dangerously unbalanced but utterly implausible woman
If you are a Buddhist or very fond of soccer—or possibly one of the yuppie aristocracy who are both—then The Cup is for you. Even I, who have very little time for either Buddhism or soccer, found it completely charming. Written and directed by Khyentse Norbu, it tells the story of a Buddhist monastery in…
What is honor? Blackhawk Down will tell you (without using the word) but in this movie it gets all mixed up with racial tolerance.
