Tag: Harrison Ford

  • It’s The Script, Stupid!

    Oh, Hollywood, how many times have you tried to throw star power at a project, locked in a grade-A director and spent the GDP of a small country on special effects only to end up with a celluloid turd that’s DOA? The answer is way too many times. The problem is black and white: the…

  • Pity Morley Safer

    Imagine you’ve spent a distinguished career as a respected journalist, and you finally get a shot to appear in a feature film alongside Bob Schieffer and Chris Matthews and HARRISON FORD! You’d be thinking, I’m golden, I got me some cinematic gold dust to sprinkle on my career. Unfortunately, the movie is a miserable mess…

  • Getting Your $10 Worth (Movie Reviews)

      Hollywood’s upped the ante to $10 for viewing one of their precious little “movies.” Add $54 for a medium popcorn, medium beverage and a box of Milk Duds (“The Blockbuster Bellybuster Valu Combo”) and we’re talking a pretty pricey couple hours. I’ll scribble a few lines to tell you which movies I believe are…