The first trailer for The Blind Side, the Sandra Bullock movie about the life of Ravens first round draft pick Michael Oher, is out. Looks tear jerky!

Had drinks with the talented young filmmaker Matt Porterfield last night. After graduating from NYU Film School, he came back to Baltimore to make the critically acclaimed Hamilton, a dreamy, elegiac work about his home town. His next feature, Metal Gods is ready to shoot, with a cast (including Sky Ferreira, above), a script, and [...]

Feeling a little blue that the Ravens weren’t the sexiest story of draft weekend?
No obscenely over-priced contracts, no glad-handing quarterbacks, no—okay, this one hurts a bit—stud wide receivers?
Instead, we selected an offensive tackle. A very, very good offensive tackle, mind you, but an offensive tackle nonetheless.
Well, guess what Ravens fans? We win!
Because I ask [...]

Although I knew he was sick, so at least it didn’t come as a total shock, I’m tremendously sad about the death of director/actor Sydney Pollack, who succumbed to cancer yesterday at the too-young age of 73.
Sydney Pollack has directed two of my all-time favorite films—Tootsie (quite simply, a perfect comedy) and The Way We [...]

I do a whole lot of yammering about movies on TV and on radio. I also do one measly review a month for Baltimore magazine. (Our deadline schedule makes it tricky to do timely reviews—nothing more awkward than seeing that Run Fatboy Run review weeks after the film has jogged unceremoniously out of theaters.) So [...]