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Tomorrowland will open your eyes wide
Tomorrowland brings us to Yesterdayville. Writers Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird and director Bird select the Worlds Fair, Flushing, N.Y., 1964, to focus the attention on young inventor Frank Walker and...
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Did I mention that they had me from Aloha?
Aloha unwinds during Christmas time in Hawaii. Sun, lots of it, with blue water and pristine sand. Interesting myths from the islands mysterious past play out among the mountains and lush forest....
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Tools of the trade, I’d like to reintroduce you
I’ve worked hard since the January 2013 layoff from the big daily to become more relevant in the infrastructure of BloggyVille. Lift up the hood and know as much as I can about making this baby here...
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It’s OK when Pixar plays head games, Inside Out proves
Please do go with your kids to see Inside Out. I spent the pre-lunch hours of my Father’s Day delightfully with my daughter Elisabeth taking in the stark emotions of Joy and Sadness and the many shades...
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Minions makes me chuckle, but the yellow pills can’t get inside my head
The three little yellow dudes have a good sense of humor and all that, but I can’t say I’m in love with their sense of timing. Minions drew a decent crowd for the Saturday matinee in the Regal Cinemas...
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In Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck, heart beats out rowdy
Amy Schumer’s comic mind surely worked overtime to come up with Trainwreck. The rising star wrote the script, as you probably know unless you’re living in one of the few places where they haven’t...
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No Vacation from the National Lampoon-style humor
If you lived through the 1980s, you know it. If you sat through the 2000s, you know it. That wink-wink through lasviousness and lewdness paired with physical awkwardnes that made the National Lampoon’s...
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At the Regional Market, it’s part Farmer’s, part Flea
On Saturdays and Sunday when the weather’s right, Central New Yorkers don’t seem to mind fighting for a parking spot at the Regional Market. Nestled in the middle of NBT Bank Stadium, Destiny USA and...
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In No Escape, a family man faces the worst
If you’re thinking about traveling to Asia, don’t see No Escape. If you’re about to take your family to a different country, don’t see No Escape. If you’ve just taken a new job and are about to...
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A Walk in the Woods doesn’t much rile Redford
At the start of A Walk in the Woods, travel writer Bill Bryson is being interviewed on a Boston morning TV show. The host is a silly man, sure, over-the-top in his pomposity and self-importance, but he...
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Next time a stranger offers to pay for that coffee …
Oh, her life looks so good. Big house on a beautiful street, with a slightly nosy neighbor who’s really just looking out for her. Great job, a decision-maker and rising star in a major lobbyist firm....
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In Black Mass, Johnny Depp has evil down cold
Quite the block in South Boston that was that gave the world the Bulger brothers and John Connolly. Black Mass tells the tale with a deep and horrible chill. Directed by Scott Cooper by a script from...
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Who wouldn’t want to learn from a gentle DeNiro?
Ben Whittaker has done the travel thing, the exercise thing and the grandpa thing in his retirement world, and none of it is exactly making the 70-year-old widow from Brooklyn happy. Oh, he’s not...
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A Mets fan can feel lonely in Syracuse even with the World Series ahead
My devotion to the New York Mets has been well-chronicled here this season. There was the trip to Citi Field in late June with my dear wife Karen and friends Steve and Kristen that spurred my...
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Bill Murray finds himself taking a shot in Rock the Kasbah
There’s no doubt that agent Richie Lanz is playing among the lesser lights in the biz no matter how much he boasts about his connections and his past. He may have discovered Madonna at a hamburger...
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The 33 allows you to root for the winner you know
If you had your ears open in 2010, you likely heard the tale of the miners stuck deep down in belly of that Chilean mine. It was the kind of event that moves the world’s talkers to tell all. The horror...
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Oh, those precocious princesses may make you appreciate the Royals
The Royals fascinate America. No news flash here, what with the morning shows rushing over to televise the tight waves high from the balcony of Buckingham Palace every time Queen Elizabeth and her son...
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Ron Howard tries too hard to take us deep into the heart of the tale of...
Ishmael and that great, big whale brought to the world from the pen of Herman Melville 165 years ago are back. Ron Howard, one mammoth director by any standard, has latched onto the prequel, if you...
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Ice Cube, Kevin Hart do more than Ride Along in 2
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart bring out the best in each other, for sure this time. And that makes Ride Along 2 better than its predecessor, which was a pretty good buddy movie in the first place. We find...
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It’s hard to get past De Niro’s big stink in Dirty Grandpa
This sort of sleaze-in-comedy-clothing you expect from Zac Efron, having slinked down Eeew Lane just two years ago with Neighbors. (Sorority house sequel with Seth Rogen coming soon, trailer in...
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