Robin Hood
You can dress it up or throw mud in its eye, but the enduring appeal of the Robin Hood legend is simple: treachery bested by archery.
The other night, Turner Classic Movies aired the evergreen 1938 classic “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (Errol Flynn in staggering three-strip Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and William [...]
Who Is Loretta Claiborne?
A Brief Biography Of Special Olympics Runner Loretta Claiborne
Loretta Claiborne is a partially blind and mildly mentally challenged Special Olympics marathon runner who has been decorated with awards, accolades and honors. She has won ESPN’s ESPY Arthur Ashe Award for Courage (1996), had Disney produce a movie about her life (The Loretta [...]
Shrek Forever After
Dreamworks seems bored with the ogre who laid the golden egg. “Shrek Forever After,” the fourth film in the lucrative franchise, barely tampers with the Shrek formula (one-liners, flatulence jokes, pop tunes) and not enough to breathe life into the exhausted series.
Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is feeling buried under the celebrity, [...]
Princess Kaiulani
The true story of how Hawaii lost its sovereignty and became annexed to the United States might have been an interesting one, but it makes for starchy entertainment in the historical drama “Princess Kaiulani.”
Written and directed by Marc Forby and told through the eyes of its title character, a half-Hawaiian, half-Scottish princess (bloodlessly [...]
Movie Review: Just Wright Equals Just Perfect
Just Wright was the the perfect romance comedy featuring Queen Latifah and rapper Common. This is Common’s first leading role in a film. Common plays a professional basketball player for the New Jersey Nets named Scott McKnight. Queen Latifah plays a physical therapist named Leslie Wright, who goes on [...]