This Bill Bryson adaptation is watered down by a lackluster script.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER, the latest from Marvel Studios, is a movie about heroism and sacrifice that doesn’t sacrifice character for spectacle.
Robert Redford’s film version of the trial of Mary Surratt, for her part in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, makes a run at complete historical accuracy. It’s success in that pursuit probably depends on how stringently you define historical accuracy, but its success as a drama requires it to meet entirely different standards. Is it up to either task?
Morning, Washington. We hope you were out enjoying the fantastic weather, especially since the environment has been front and center in the news this weekend. As you must have heard, our former Vice President turned Global Warming Guru had to shove over the Oscar on his mantle to make space for half of a Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe after the news you were inspired to go check out the 20 amazing houses built on the…
FRIDAY: >> There have only been a handful of actors in this world who are genuine badasses. Robert Mitchum. Robert Redford. Robert Loggia. Any of the Roberts, really. And then there’s Kris Kristofferson. This is a guy who has hung out with both Sam Peckinpah and Janis Joplin, been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and oh, makes time to kill a few vampires on the weekends. Dude is so virile a gal could…
A vigilant reader pointed out to us that the website of the ever-popular Screen on the Green film series has been updated. The series, organized by AOL and HBO, is in its seventh year, and is seen here in a photo from this blog. This year’s films are “The Way We Were” (July 18), “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (July 25), “Suspicion” (Aug. 1), “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (Aug. 8) and “The Big…
The Vote for Change rockers have gone, but there’s still plenty of celebrity eye candy in town this weekend. Look for Billy Corgan (ex-Smashing Pumpkins) as he stops by the 9:30 Club on Sunday to read from his new work “Blinking with Fists.” If maudlin rocker poetry isn’t your thing, you can see the prettier Hollywood set at Saturday night’s Italian American Foundation Gala at the Hilton Towers. Expected to show are Tim McGraw, Faith…