POSTS BY Gregory Epps
Gregory Epps is a would-be fiction writer, and a 10-year veteran of weekly film criticism with a 17-year history of local writing. His continuing mission is to grow so talented that his words have the power to seduce women and make grown men weep, expose hypocrites, sow political dissent, make clerics question their faith, frighten evil men and embolden the righteous.
Film Review: The Last Station
By Gregory Epps
A story of Tolstoy’s final days, starring Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy and Paul Giamatti, opens tonight at Naro Cinema.
A Critic Slips Out the Fire Exit
By Gregory Epps
A 10-year veteran of film criticism and local writing says farewell.
Avatar: Thumbs Down
By Gregory Epps
“Imaginative” is the first word that comes to mind when discussing Avatar, and “boring” is the other.
The Secrets of Pho 79′s Pho
By Gregory Epps
Even the cooks don’t hold the secret. The grandparents come in once a week and create the arcane mix of herbs and spices that go into every giant pot, then presumably disappear into an ethereal mist before they return to work their magic again.
GRAN TORINO | Living the Legend
By Gregory Epps
Gran Torino is a coming of age parable for the Thao character, but the theme can be extended to Eastwood himself, whose talent evolved on celluloid.
TOP PIE-ORITY
By Gregory Epps
Agreeing that all corporate pizza tastes like ketchup on cardboard, my anonymous pizza agents and I excluded the likes of Pizza Hut and Dominos from our experiment. But with dozens of local pizza joints in the Seven Cities, where do you begin? Ranking our pies on the key elements of Crust, Sauce and Topping, we determined to eat our way to the answer.
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