Woody Allen

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: "Blue Jasmine" can be funny; at times painfully so. But it would be a mistake to go into the film…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 5, 2012 - Almost inevitably, whatever Woody Allen movie came along this year in the wake of last…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 14, 2011 - In "Play It Again, Sam," a spoof of Humphrey Bogart movies that came out in 1972,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 14, 2010 -The name of physicist Werner Heisenberg is tossed casually into the mix of "You Will…

As the summer movie season began, the first thing one might have detected was a sense of irrelevancy. That there would be a phalanx of sequels, comic book…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: August 18, 2008 - In literature and film, young Americans often go abroad to have formative…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: June 3, 2008 - An earlier entry on Woody Allen was left incomplete, not from any attempt to create…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: An odd coupling from a late-’60s Allen TV special:I sometimes suspect that the air of…