When life gets so busy that you don’t know which way is up, it’s a good idea to stop and appreciate the little things that make life worth living. For me, one of those things …
Posts by Chuck Koplinski:
When Icons Go to Seed
I went to see Rambo over the weekend and I’m not embarrassed to say so. (My admitting that I’m a Barry Manilow fan will have to wait for another day…baby steps and all that…) There …
For the Love of Money
There Will Be Blood Rated R Opening at Boardman’s Art Theater on Friday The most impressive thing about writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is that he continues to challenge himself with every feature film he makes. …
China Blue Tonight at the Armory
As busy as we are, it’s easy to take things for granted. For instance, take those blue jeans you’re wearing. You go to the mall, find a pair that makes your ass look good and …
Cloverfield – A 2lst Century Disaster Movie Catharsis
If, as some critics have suggested, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1954) was a collective catharsis for Japanese filmgoers regarding the atomic bomb disasters that befell Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, then Cloverfield can be …
Atonement – Cinema’s Latest Emperor in New Clothes
With all the hype surrounding Joe Wright’s Atonement and the pedigree involved in its making, I had no doubt that I would like the film. After all, the director and his muse, Keira Knightly, breathed …
Morning Groans and Hamburger Phones — All in a Day’s Work for Juno
“I don’t really know what kind of girl I am.” Truer words were never spoken by Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page). At 16 years of age, she’s straddling that line between the fancies of a little …
The Ten Best Flicks of 2007 That Skipped Champaign–Urbana
Yep, we’ve got a Big Ten school and a county-wide population of about 185,000. We are home to an internationally recognized film festival presented and curated by one Roger Ebert and we even have an …