Hollywood director Gore Verbinski has found satisfaction in mediocrity — at least in what’s been captured in Nicholas Cage’s character in “The Weatherman.”
Verbinski, considered one of Hollywood’s
Not sure why, but The Imbiber frequently receives advance copies of books accompanied by notes from PR flaks beseeching me to “consider for review.” Out of professional courtesy I generally
By EMILY CHRISTIANSON Special to the Daily Press
Fifty years ago, Dennis Hopper believed starring in a television series would ruin his film career. He now admits “I was totally
The year is 1989 and Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) is a battered woman who escapes to the tightly-knit, hardscrab-ble Northern Minnesota mining town where she was born, determined
Steve Martin impresses as both star and scripter of this adaptation of his wry, dysthymic 2000 novella, but director Anand Tucker (“Hilary and Jackie”) makes a few dubious choices that
Schools keep children on solid ground thousands of aging concrete buildings represent the state’s largest remaining risk of serious damage in a major earthquake, seismic safety officials said in
A few years ago, Cameron Crowe was on tour with his rocker wife Nancy Wilson of Heart when he became enchanted by the “electric blue hillsides” and “in-betweeness” of
An 11-year-old boy’s harrowing experiences in war-torn 1980s El Salvador is the subject of director Luis Mandoki’s (“When a Man Loves a Woman”) intense drama,
Like the ancient sea turtles for which it’s named, this sophisticated tear-jerker from writer/director Tim Kirkman moves very slowly. But those who are patient shall be rewarded
Recently, The Imbiber attended a rave. I don’t know why they’re called raves because from what I witnessed, nobody seemed to be doing anything with any enthusiasm. If
THE MOVIE: “Good Night, and Good Luck” THE DIRECTOR: George Clooney THE STARS: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels, Frank Langella A battle waged half
