2008 February 09 | Coosa Creek Cinema

At Last Juno

By Rick, on February 9th, 2008 |

As I’ve said before, not being a real critic gives me a luxury my friends on the other side don’t have: I don’t have to see movies I don’t want to. And when Jason Reitman’s Juno was released back in December, just in time for Oscar, I didn’t run immediately out to see [...]

Is the WGA Strike Over?

By Rick, on February 9th, 2008 |

At a screening of Honeydripper here in Tuscaloosa, I asked John Sayles what his next project was going to be. He said he was observing the WGA strike and working on a novel. When I pointed out the irony of observing a writer’s strike by writing, he joked that the difference was he [...]