Dawn Taylor'S RECENT ARTICLES
Start a New Tradition With These Christmas Not-Quite-Classics
· Every year, basic cable and network television offer the same slate of holiday classics —...
Five Films That Celebrate the Darker Side of Christmas
· Not everyone embraces sugarplums, mistletoe and holly during the holiday season. Some folks even get...
Casting Abe Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s Biopic
· As reported in New York magazine and elsewhere, Steven Spielberg‘s long-gestating biopic about Abraham Lincoln...
First-time Oscar Nominees: Who’ll Be Back?
· Every Oscar season, we see the Academy nominate a handful of actors who are new...
Iron Man vs. Batman: A Couple’s Dilemma
· It started with an offhand remark — “I think that Iron Man is the best...
On DVD: Magnificent Obsession (The Criterion Collection)
· If you love the TV show Mad Men — and you know you do —...
On DVD: Ghost Town
· As horrible as the idea of yet another guy-is-haunted-by-dead-people comedy is, the mere fact that...
Married with Movies: The Notebook (Limited Edition Gift Set DVD)
· (Note: The following contains many, many spoilers for The Notebook. In fact, it’s pretty much...
On DVD: Garden Party
· Is anyone else tired of the whole multiple-characters-doing-unrelated-things-and-then-intersecting-somewhere-towards-the-end-of-the-movie genre? Seriously. What seemed ever so slightly...
On DVD: White Dog (The Criterion Collection)
· One of cinema’s most intense, compelling examinations of racism that you’ve never seen has finally...