Category: Commentary

In the summer of 1983 I was 19 years old, and my best friend Gordon worked as an usher at the local multiplex. What a deal: I saw fifteen summer flicks, and I never paid a cent! Looking back after 30 years, I remember Tom Cruise’s Ray-Bans, Roy Scheider’s tan, and scary computers. Roger Moore […]

Today, comedy and horror are like peanut butter and chocolate. We can’t remember a time when the two weren’t part and parcel of each other’s make-up, and everyone is convinced they go great together. But not too long ago, fear and fun were barely on speaking terms, the laughs left to efforts that specifically went […]

It goes without saying that Roger Ebert, who died yesterday from cancer at the age of 70, was America’s movie critic. It also goes without saying that there will never be another like him, especially not in these media-atomized times. No other critic was better known or (arguably) more listened to; at least as much […]