Oscar Race Highlights Banner Movie Year

Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 27, 2014 Handicapping the Oscars is a hazardous affair. Personal friendships, political correctness, mega-bucks marketing campaigns and even lack of time – the 6,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have just a few weeks to watch and evaluate scores of movies – all figure into the voting. […]

‘Magic Mike’ Review: Magical Indeed

Evanston RoundTable, July 19, 2012 If you love good movies, thank Steven Soderbergh for saving your summer. Yes, the season that brings you, year after year with depressing regularity, comic book retreads, animated kid pix, bad 3D horror sci fi fantasy flicks and lame, predictable rom coms. But Soderbergh’s “Magic Mike” is none of the […]