Playing Shakespeare often lifts up a middling actor’s work to a level of authenticity. On film, this is what happened in the case of Michael Keaton in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing (1993), where the former Batman is terribly moving and brilliantly funny as Dogberry. However, the situation is hardly universal. In that same […]

With fatherhood impending, an unconvincingly domesticated Mark seizes upon old buddy Kurt’s invitation to go on a camping excursion in the woods. Destination: Bagby Hot Springs, near Mt. Hood in Oregon. Tanya would rather that Mark stay by her, but she knows his hippie soul; Mark invites her to come along—a chivalrous gesture, perhaps, but […]