Asides

Svetlana Khodchenkova and Tao Okamato in The Wolverine, because you've likely already seen plenty of shots of Hugh Jackman with his shirt off.  Also reviewed by me: Blue Jasmine. Both…

Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger is, I think, a much genuinely weirder movie than many of its Extremely Indignant Detractors are crediting it as. I argue this a bit in…

If you think I'm going to easily let go of the fact that Channing Tatum's character in White House Down is named "John Cale," you don't know me very well.…

In Not Fade Away, David Chase, 2012. David Chase used his secret sharer James Gandolfini in a quietly devastating way in his feature film writing/directing debut last year, Not Fade…

Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine in Star Trek Into Darkness, for which I wrote a largely spoiler-free (although apparently the thing these days is to drop spoilers, and to care…

I wasn't all that crazy about Iron Man 3, but my friend Tom Carson really liked it. I point this out not because it's so rare that Tom and I…