When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be..

In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despi….

My newspaper job … is my identity..

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's….

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them..

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it..

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted..

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law..

When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have a voyeuristic experience; we have an out of….

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people..

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are..

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game..

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting..

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, ….

Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised..

Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the….

Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown a….

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find ….

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives..

"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because t….

Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable p….