“I’ve always had dual careers,” Levy said. “A full-time film professor and a full-time critic — which means I have no life.”

“Stand By Me” is one of director Bob Reiner’s two or three best films.  Twenty-five years later, the DVD anniversary edition again shows why:  The movie evokes effortlessly and poetically the unique magic of childhood. 

"Paper Man" is an inspirational comedic drama about an unlikely friendship between Richard (Jeff Daniels), a failed middle-aged novelist who has never quite grown up and Abby (Emma Stone), a 17-year-old girl whose role in a family tragedy years earlier has stolen away her youth.