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On March 17, 2017, I was pleased to have sat in on a roundtable interview with Danny Boyle, a director whose 1996 film Trainspotting changed the way I looked at movies. (For my personal take on Trainspotting, click here.) When I heard Danny Boyle and the cast of Trainspotting were coming back for T2 Trainspotting, […]

“If you are a parent, tonight’s show is therapy; if you don’t have kids, tonight’s show is NNNNINETY minutes of birth control… You’re welcome. YOU. ARE. WELCOME.” Bringing it hard to the masses since his eponymous Fox Television show debuted in 2000, Christopher Titus’ sharp-tongued, abrasive comedy regarding his family life and his own personal […]

We were all agape at “The Miracle on the Hudson”, when an Airbus A320 landed in the water with not a single casualty among its 155 passengers and crew. A bird strike at 2,000 feet caused dual engine failure and subsequent ditch, at the lowest altitude in history no less. It was a frigid day […]

What do you get when you cross an animator with a director who specializes in raunchy adult humor? Not “Sausage Party”, believe it or not, but Warner Animation’s “Storks”, a kid-friendly yarn that is also funny enough to engage the grown-ups. If we’re talking about a way to fill 90 minutes and you just can’t […]

A beautiful expansion and somehow first ever feature adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s book, “The Little Prince” is my favorite animated pic of 2016 (second would be “Kubo and the Two Strings”). The story of a little girl (Mackenzie Foy) whose “life plan” is broken down to each minute of the day by stiff, over-achieving […]

Living in and around Washington, DC can make you tired of everything having to do with politics, politicians, the media, social media, and the soundbite-driven attention spans of the area’s constituents. No one reads anything anymore, nor do they pay attention to the message or what’s really trying to be said. In this era of […]