The old man and the car
Meet Gran Torino’s Walt Kowalski: Korean War vet, retired auto worker, widower, ornery racist coot. Walt can’t stand the people crowding into his home for his wife’s wake, and they’re […]
So hip it hurts
“American Idol” Tuesday & Wednesday 8pm, Fox “Idol” remains America’s No. 1 TV show in the ratings, although the numbers have started to slide the past few seasons. Part of […]
Capsule Reviews
Bedtime Stories (PG, 99 minutes) Adam Sandler plays a storytelling uncle whose stories surprise him by coming true. A presumably family-friendly adventure-comedy co-starring Courtney Cox Arquette, Lucy Lawless, Guy Pearce […]
Tom Cruise gets führer-ious in Valkyrie
Valkyrie puts forth the idea that not all Nazis should be categorized as either ferocious barbarians or craven order-followers. We knew this, of course, from Schindler’s List. And from history. […]
Many happy returns
“Scrubs” Tuesday 9pm, ABC In one of the more baffling moves in recent TV history, ABC opted to pick up an eighth season of NBC’s hospital comedy “Scrubs” after the […]
Capsule Reviews
Australia (PG-13, 175 minutes) Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann directs Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic historical western. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 Bedtime Stories (PG, 99 minutes) […]
Ain’t too proud to beg
So here you are, actually reading a review of Marley & Me. Don’t feel guilty, OK? It’s perfectly natural to want to know what happens when John Grogan’s bestseller about […]
New year, new shows
New Year’s Eve TV Wednesday, multiple channels My fellow shut-ins and social pariahs: Let’s all vow to close out 2008 the way we spent most of it, with our asses […]