dvd of the week David Fincher’s fantastic adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestseller about a missing woman and the husband who is accused of making her disappear was a huge hit this fall, and with good reason. Ben Affleck has never been better as an ethically challenged Midwestern man who desperately wants out of his marriage…
Whiplash It’s hard to imagine a teacher worse than Terrence Fletcher, the jazz band leader at fictional Shaffer Conservatory of Music in New York who J.K. Simmons plays with terrifying, unpredictable, sadistic joy. Fletcher, something like a cross between a Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket and Delores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order…
America met Neil Patrick Harris as a genius teenage doctor on Doogie Howser, M.D. Years later Harris reinvented his image from teen nerd to slick, skirt-chasing, catch-phrase king Barney Stinson on the long-running comedy How I Met Your Mother, which earned Harris multiple Emmy nominations. Not one to be typecast, Harris moves to stage starring…
