Alan Alda
Movie Review: Bridge of Spies
The Tom Hanks-starring period piece Bridge of Spies is Steven Spielberg’s best and most entertaining film since…well, his last Tom Hanks-starring period piece. In the decade-plus since the delightful Catch Me If You Can, Spielberg’s made good starchy period pieces (Lincoln), dull starchy period pieces (War Horse) and a few old-school adventure pictures that still can’t shake a certain sedateness (...[Read More]
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks Revisit the Cold War in Bridge of Spies
A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, DreamWorks Pictures/Fox 2000 Pictures’ Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg, tells the story of James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pi...[Read More]
Movie Review: Wanderlust
Let me get this out of the way. Yes, Jennifer Aniston goes topless in Wanderlust and no, you can’t see anything. If that’s all you wanted from this review, there you go. If you want more, read on. In Wanderlust, Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star as a married couple taking a big step with their life by buying an apartment in one of Manhattan’s more expensive neighborhoods. While purchasing the “m...[Read More]
Movie Review: Tower Heist
Tower Heist is a timely action comedy about the seething discontent felt by so many after the financial collapse and the revelations detailing Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme to relieve countless investors of their portfolios, retirement parachutes, and children’s piggybank contents. Tower Heist arrives just as disenfranchised U.S. citizens have taken to the streets in the “Occupy” movement, offering...[Read More]