If nothing else — and sadly, there is not much else — “The Skeleton Twins” demonstrates once again that just about every movie entered in one of those ubiquitous film festivals wins some kind of prize, and that many even win a lot of prizes. The picture arrives in this region having won a screenwriting […]
Kristen Wiig
Film Review: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
The first movie based on James Thurber’s most famous short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” was adapted for the screen back in 1947, starring the multitalented Danny Kaye in the title role. Walter Mitty, a timid, passive, henpecked husband, embarrassingly incompetent at ordinary tasks, constantly falls into daydreams in which he assumes such […]
“Girl Most Likely”
Amid the reverberating thunder of the seasonal spectaculars, a movie without any special effects should reassure audiences that Hollywood has not yet destroyed the world with planetary collision, climate catastrophe, thermonuclear war, or all those tiresome zombies. A modest little romantic comedy and a quintessential chick flick, “Girl Most Likely,” provides a modicum of relief […]






