Nostalgic &quot;Catskill&quot; lacks emotional connection
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Set at a small Catskills  resort in the 1950s, when writers were blacklisted for alleged  Communist sympathies, Michael Elias&#39; play is shot through with  the kind of nostalgia that signals deep personal involvement.  But it leaves out the details of why this means something to  him, and so it fails to engage the audience with an emotional  back story.
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Underachieving even by the standards of stoner comedies, âStrange Wildernessâ is so inert that it doesnât so much unreel on screen as loiter there.
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BASED SIMPLY ON its tired premise and atmosphere, &quot;The Forgotten&quot; should be every bit as forgettable as its name. With so many elements - from its chilly autumnal setting to the
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It is mood music conforming to the sentimental nature of the story that sets the album apart.
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Robert Zemeckis' new film has technical wizardry but lacks heart.
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When the film based on Chris Van Allsburg&#39;s delicate and haunting children&#39;s book &quot;The Polar Express&quot; plays in its own backyard, it has the purity of virgin, new-fallen snow.
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This slow, earnest picture is a minor example of what has become a major genre: the feel-good Holocaust picture.
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Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator of the children&#39;s classic The Polar Express, is a low-tech kind of guy. He prefers the feeling of pastels and paper
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By Dan Craft  BLOOMINGTON - So many talented area musicians, so little organized information about them.  And Pat Rosenbaum isn't happy about it.   She's so unhappy, in fact, that she wants to rectify the situation - immediately.
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The new Johnny Depp film is a warm, sentimental journey.
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I guess I'm the bad boy of heart attack survivors. Mine played like low comedy from the start. It felt not like shearing pain; I had no revelations of mortality and sense of endtimes and lost opportunities. Actually, it seemed Bill Clinton was sitting on my chest playing the saxophone.
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Tycho:  The memories of those who came of age in the eighties have become a kind of ghastly rummage sale, a tilled up cemetery where icons lay tilted over bones draped in ancient finery.  Pork caught a preview of Transformers on Monday, and he claims that it is not, in fact, heresy - but I don't know how calibrated our respective tastes are.  I was going to make a statement about how any constantly shifting image could entertain him, enthrall him, command him, until I realized that this viewing was late at night, in the twilight period we call Pork After Hours, when his medication wanes and his blood is frenzied by some dark moon.  For him to have focused on anything at any time after nine o'clock is actually high praise.
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Though the album has its moments, it's not entirely enticing.
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Erik Friedlander offers an idiosyncratic version of American roots music, with steady, folklike themes that unfold like a trip down an endless highway.
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Ladder 49&quot; is a solid, old-fashioned fire-fighting melodrama. It&#39;s a string of sentimental snapshots of a firefighter&#39;s life told in flashback as he and his crew fight for his life in a towering inferno where he has been trapped.
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Foster's The Brave One, makes urban paranoia a form of nostalgia. But Richard Corliss doesn't recognize this New York
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&quot;Closer&quot; must be an ironic title, since its vibes are consistently and often smugly alienating. Nevertheless, Patrick Marber&#39;s play, now adapted by the author for director Mike Nichols, has