RATING:
Sex and the City 2 has very little sex and even less city. Whose brilliant idea was that?
I loved the first movie because it gave me everything I enjoyed about the HBO series—the clothing! the friendships! the snark! the romance!—only more so. It was two-and-a-half hours—the veritable Birth of a Nation of chick flicks—and [...]

RATING:
A few less booger jokes and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, based on the popular series of children’s books, could almost be a minor classic.
Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) is starting his first day of 6th grade. He wants to be popular, but he doesn’t quite know how to go about it. His longtime best [...]

Bit off topic from my usual beat of movies and pop culture, but I wanted to share an amazing experience I had on Tuesday night.
I had my debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Well, at least that's the way I chose to word it to family and friends.
In fact, I had been asked to participate in [...]

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 [...]