A beautiful, moving performance by Quinton Aaron as Michael Oher, a homeless Memphis teenager who is taken in off the streets and eventually quasi-adopted by a well-heeled couple with two other children, elevates an otherwise unexceptional, self-congratulatory drama based on the half of Michael Lewis’s book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game that is […]
Daily Archives: April 20, 2010
My taste does not run to Douglas Fairbanks in his flamboyant swashbuckling roles, but he is a light, charming comical romantic, albeit an intermittently (very!) irritating one, in the modern-dress The Nut, to whose screenplay (along with others) the dashing star contributed. Fairbanks plays Charlie Jackson, a Greenwich Village inventor who is smitten with Estrell […]
Dennis Grunes 