“Wicked Little Letters” might drag The Critical Drinker out of the multiplex and into the art house.
It’s what would happen if Ken Loach tried to direct a comedy from a scr… Read More
Hollywood rose up in the days and weeks following the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.
Stars signed open letters decrying Hamas’ ghoulish attack which killed 1,200 people and tortured many mo… Read More
“Baby Reindeer” is this year’s “Tiger King,” and it didn’t need a global pandemic to forge its fame.
The seven-episode Netflix series is a heady blend of… Read More
Adam Carolla knew we needed “Mr. Birchum” both sooner and later.
The cranky wood shop teacher, created by Carolla to break into LA radio in the 1990s, captured his real-world car… Read More
Remember comedy?
We used to embrace it without reservation, treating comedians like … comedians, not politicians who hold sway over our lives.
Tell a bad joke? Move along. Nothing to… Read More
David Mamet’s “Spartan” (2004) opens with one of my favorite lines of movie dialogue.
We begin in the woods, watching men and women run through a rigorous training course i… Read More