An off-release week allows for a chance to focus on other narratives By T.T. Stern-Enzi Photo: Michael Douglas as Wiliam D-Fens Foster in “Falling Down” During a recent bit of old-fashioned coach potato channel surfing, I stumbled upon the end of Joel Schumacher’s 1993 release “Falling Down” featuring Michael Douglas as a character simply referred […]
The new millennial sexpot By T.T. Stern-Enzi Photo: Eva Green as Artemisia in “300: Rise of an Empire” Eva Green was born to play a femme fatale, and not the noirish temptresses from the old black and white movies. She needs to have a moment when she can burst onto the scene in living color […]
Hitch a ride with a crazy old pair of ex brothers-in-law By T.T. Stern-Enzi Photo: Earl Lynn Nelson as Mitch and Paul Eenhoorn as Colin in “Land Ho!”; Rating: R, Grade: A I should prepare you right off, “Land Ho!” – from the writing and directing duo of Aaron Katz (“Quiet City” and “Cold Weather”) and […]
Woody Allen’s latest is more of a trick than a spellbinding treat By T.T. Stern-Enzi Photo: Emma Stone as Sophie and Colin Firth as Stanley in “Magic in the Moonlight”; Rating: PG-13, Grade: C+ In the poem “Marmion,” Sir Walter Scott opined, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” The […]
Richard Linklater’s finest achievement takes 12 years to document By T.T. Stern-Enzi Photo: Capturing the transitions of ‘Boyhood’ On paper, and in far lesser hands, the premise of “Boyhood” would come across as a gimmick that would never make it past the idea stage. Potential producers wouldn’t appreciate the notion of funding a decade-plus-long project that would […]
Comic book adaptation features a welcome addition to the ever-expanding family By T.T. Stern-Enzi Photo: Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Vin Diesel as Groot, Zoe Saldana as Gamora and Chris Pratt as Peter Quill in “Guardians of the Galaxy”; Rating: PG-13, Grade: A When this seemingly crazy experiment began for Marvel Studios, the feature film […]
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Spotlight on the 2014 Eichelberger FilmDayton Festival By T.T. Stern-Enzi Photo: Josh Marshall as Dean and Hannah Marshall as Lana in “The Infinite Man”; photo courtesy of “The Infinite Man” The slogan for this year’s Eichelberger FilmDayton Festival says it all – “Craft Matters.” Those two words label not only the films selected for the festival, […]
Messages in ‘Snowpiercer’ and ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ By T.T. Stern-Enzi Photo: “The Purge: Anarchy” hit theaters June 20, 2014 Back in the day, when Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five gave us the following opening in their classic, “The Message”: “It’s like a jungle sometimes/it makes me wonder how I keep from going under,” they were […]
Portrait of a film critic as a mere spectator in the crowd By T.T. Stern-Enzi Photo: Mathieu Amalric and Lea Drucker in “The Blue Room” After four years of attending the festival screening orgy that is the Toronto International Film Festival – which I’m eagerly anticipating returning to once again in September (for you … remember, […]
Major key Last weekend a local couple was watching TV in their living room, having a relaxing evening, when suddenly […]
Jesus take the wheel A local couple recently decided to visit their church on a particularly warm and muggy Sunday […]
Flightless In a local park, police were dispatched to the crime scene. A woman called the police when she realized […]
Stolen in a nanosecond Just last week a woman visited her local sheriff’s office to place a tip on a […]
Totally secure knot …not In a local home a garage door was broken into. This garage door was perfectly secured […]
