The year 2008 has been both cruel and kind to Clint Eastwood. First, the filmmaker directed a highly touted drama, Changeling, that was selected to compete at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. With a much talked about lead performance from Angelina Jolie, the film carried significant Oscar buzz right up to its domestic release in…
edtime Stories is the kind of children’s tale that sounds like it would make a great book. Unfortunately, great books don’t always make great movies, and Bedtime Stories is far from a great film.Adam Sandler, in agreeable-naif mode, plays Skeeter, a maintenance worker with dreams of running the hotel that employs him. Of course, he…
I loathe reviewing Tom Cruise films. It’s so difficult critiquing them objectively when Cruise is such a competent actor and yet so incompetent at life. For so many years, Cruise managed to maintain focus in his celebrity life, to stay on message, to keep those embarrassing tabloid stories under control. And although he lost that…
