One of the pitfalls of being a full-time movie critic is that you sometimes have to give less-than-positive reviews to films that you really, really wanted to like. It’s even more difficult when the director who made the film is someone you admire. But the new remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still marks […]
Hardball plays soft with the truth
Bob Muzikowski with Gregg Lewis: Safe at Home (Zondervan, 2001) Hardball (in theatres now) Earlier this year, Chicago-based Little League coach Bob Muzikowski took Paramount Pictures to court in a futile effort to block the release of Hardball, a movie about a baseball team for boys set in the Windy City’s housing projects — and […]