I Don’t Want To Go Back To the Movies Yet
There’s been a lot of handwringing in the news about moviegoers’ failure to return to cinemas when they rolled out Tenet and Mulan earlier this month. As a critic,…
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Turns out I’m not alone in hating ‘The Notebook’
(CNN) Recently, I wrote a piece about how classic movies we once loved can disappoint us in hindsight. As a critic, I get lots of feedback, especially…
Have Covid-19 test results, will travel
(CNN) — After our summer of housebound limbo, a handful of international travel options are finally opening back up, with conditions.So how do you meet the Covid-19 safety…
Colon cancer survivor says it’s time to take the disease seriously
In a year that has already brought so much tragedy and loss, Chadwick Boseman’s death at age 43 seems unthinkably cruel and unfair. How could such a…
Big-city dwellers ask: Should I rent or buy a car?
(CNN) — With no end in sight to pandemic lockdowns, an increasing number of cooped-up, big-city dwellers are feeling the lure of the open road. After…
I have some bad news about ‘The Notebook’
(CNN) For many of us, nostalgia has become a steady part of our entertainment diet during these stressful months as the Covid-19 pandemic wears on…
See Nashville’s new Dolly Parton-themed rooftop bar
(CNN) — “What would Dolly Parton’s rooftop have looked like in 1980?”That’s the question White Limozeen, the vintage-glam bar and restaurant atop Nashville’s Graduate Hotel, aims to…
‘Clueless’ is 25! Everything you didn’t know about the iconic film
Twenty-five years ago this July, the film world was forever changed by two little words: As if!
We can make moviegoing better
(CNN) On Wednesday, the world’s biggest movie chain announced it may not bounce back from the financial damage of the pandemic shutdown. AMC Theaters has said it…
White’s Woods logging: ‘There will be a lot of tears’
“In childhood the wilds seemed infinite. Along Crooked Creek in the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania there was a tract of forest we called the…