Directed by Renny Harlin. 2014. Let me say first that The Legend of Hercules is not a great, or good, movie. It is indeed a bad movie. ...

Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. 2014. spoilers noted below How does the director of You, Me, and Dupree  end up directing Ca...

The philosophy of Aristotle lacks little, but a gaping omission is a human face. There is no smart aleck Socrates with whom we may laugh an...

A new season of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares  is under way and this season I'm struck by how many problems these chefs and ow...

Holy  is one of my least favorite words in our beloved English tongue. To start, the word has an undignified ring, for both wholly and holy...

Teaching Latin literature courses always runs into several conundrums. Chief among these, perhaps, is whether the course will be structured...

Among foibles and vices I've been fortunate to find pleasure in much that seems to plague modern man. I enjoy moderate, healthy, simple...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 1972. Frenzy  is remembered today as Hitchcock's next-to-last and most explicit film, but in our era o...

Yesterday was the first of the vernal season on which the sun and wind could both agree to warm us in their springtime hands. The Central P...

New York is supposed to be a rough and tumultuous place. In my experience it has not been so and in these twenty eight years of Big Apple c...