I once had someone tell me to my face that women can’t accurately review action movies because “they just don’t understand.” (During a job interview. You’ll note tha...

This week brings “Fast and Furious 6,” in which drivers are very, very, very, very, very, very fast. And furious! We’re glad none of these bad drivers from other movies ...

I knew Rosebud was the sled, I knew Ilsa would get on the plane, and I knew Norman Bates liked to wear his mom’s clothes. I even knew Bruce Willis was dead the whole time. W...

When J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” came out in 2009, the canon-rocking news was the romance between Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana). Shippers of Spockura (Spur...

“Star Trek Into Darkness” will be analyzed in obsessive detail by those who love it and will join the pantheon of movies about which writers must avoid making even the tee...

When I teach film, I often use clips from Baz Luhrmann movies as examples of formal techniques — montage, say, or framing. His use of the structure of filmmaking to communic...

In “The Great Gatsby,” out Friday, Carey Mulligan plays the impeccably bobbed Daisy. You too could look like her if you had diamond headbands and hours to spend with a fla...

Country crossover star Taylor Swift has carved out a niche penning maddeningly infectious songs about approximately a zillion relationships, most of them unrequited or over. G...

During this year’s Super Bowl, Ram Trucks ran an ad using Paul Harvey’s late-’70s “So God Made a Farmer” speech. Harvey’s voice echoed across pictures of lush crop...

Our long national nightmare is over! And by “long” I mean four months, and by “national” I mean “personal,” and by “nightmare” I mean “not having anything go...

Sunday starts National Herb Week, begun by the International Herb Association, which exists. Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist and owner of Little Red Bird Botanicals in Columb...

In “At Any Price,” out Friday, Dennis Quaid plays a Midwestern farmer with a rebellious son, a zillion acres of land and corn. Lots and lots of corn. He joins the crowded ...

Ever feel like ditching it all? Cutting the ties that bind you to work and student loans and that faucet that just won’t stop dripping and getting a new identity and heading...

As the tens of longtime readers of this column know, I keep track of the movies I see each year using my office wall and Post-it notes. The Movie-Ranking Wall of Stickies (mot...

The cherry blossoms have departed, leaving D.C. residents bereft of trees to freak out about. Enter Arbor Day. The holiday, which falls on the last Friday in April (that’s t...