As a professor at Boston University, occasionally I (and my colleagues) get email blasts advertising a new movie that’s coming out that might be of interest to members of the department, or even a non-BU lecture or art exhibit. But recently, one of them really gave me pause. It was from “The Undersecretary of Matrixism.”…

I finally saw “Definitely, Maybe,” starring Ryan Reynolds as a just-divorced and lonely Dad (who turns out to be a great romantic lead) and the ever-adorable Abigail Breslin as his daughter who longs to fix his broken love life. It’s actually a really sweet romance that manages to not get syrupy in the process. But…

In Tyler Perry’s new movie, “Meet the Browns,” a single struggling mother, played by Angela Bassett, meets the family she never knew after the death of her father. Watch the trailer below. rev; http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1422585174http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1351363375 // By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C // found at http://corp.brightcove.com/legal/terms_publisher.cfm. var…

The Oscar broadcast last night was okay. Too many montages and a few upsets in my predictions (rats!). Stewart was funny, but it wasn’t his “A” game (The best line being “‘Atonement’. Finally a movie that captures the raw passion of Yom Kippur.”) And in fact, after watching a joyful celebration of film over at…

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