Due to my father’s death yesterday morning, I will not be posting any new entries onto this blog until next week (after the shiva is over). My father, Hirsch “Harry” Dorbian (November 14, 1930-October 15, 2010) was a remarkable person: He was a child survivor of the Holocaust, a Latvian native, a proud American, veteran [...]

Maybe I need to go to movies with lowered expectations. It would have helped me when I went to see the recently released sequel to Wall Street; then perhaps I wouldn’t have been so disappointed. I feel similarly about Secretariat, a film that had it not been for the legendary horse at its center (a [...]

Women and Hollywood has just posted a very interesting feature about a profusion of feminist heroines driving current or upcoming films: http://womenandhollywood.com/2010/10/05/a-feminist-fall-at-the-movies/ Stay tuned for my review of Secretariat coming this weekend.

Since this film began to be screened for critics prior to its national release this past Friday, it has been greeted with a shower of superlatives that has made yours truly cock her ever cynical brow. “A Citizen Kane for the millennial generation,” said one esteemed critic. Such fulsome praise reverberated in my ears as [...]