Two extraordinary things happen in the otherwise stomach-turning teen romantic melodrama "The Last Song", the latest Nicholas Sparks book-to-screen adaptation. One of them is that Kristen Stewart with her excessive eyebrow-twitching is no longer the worst actress in Hollywood which can now belong to Miley Cyrus and her endless pouting....(more)

The word staggering is an odd double-sided one that can be used in two ways. The first way reminds me of when I discovered the mind-expanding films of Oliver Stone in my youth, or what I felt like after Darren Aronofsky's first couple of pictures that I found so visually sensational that experiencing them became an out of body experience....(more)

"She’s Out of My League" is an adorable sad puppy of a movie, something that keeps you laughing and sighing in disbelief. Jay Baruchel, as über-dork Kirk, is the hero with the sad eyes who doesn’t have much experience but he does have a monster ex-girlfriend that he is trying to get back with....(more)

Right off the bat, the problem with "Valentine’s Day" -- other than there are too many characters than the film can handle --is that there seems to be more storylines of jilted love than there are stories of actual love running through its intersections. Talk about traffic overload....(more)

"Twilight: New Moon" is two hours plus of Bella wants to be her hunky caretaker, and if you’ve read the book, you probably know before I did that he has a secret that makes him, you know, the opposite of Edward. Why do these guys feel so protective over this very sulky girl?...(more)

Two hundred years ago smart but ordinary people who had the gusto, if not luck, to fall in love could probably have never anticipated that there would be audiences in the future that would have sighed tenderly over their love affair. John Keats, the 1800’s poet of such treasured works as “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” and “Ode to a Nightingale,” fell in love with Fanny Brawne who became not just his idolized love but his influential muse....(more)

The out of sequence structured "The Time Traveler’s Wife" has us wondering about the paradoxes of two different versions of the traveler – one young and one old – arriving approximately in the same space and time. The time travel movie always gets you thinking about such paradoxes....(more)