‘The Drop’ takes us to a Brooklyn dark and tense

Read much of the work of Dennis Lehane? Seen “Mystic River,” “Gone Baby Gone” or “Shutter Island” perhaps? Well, the novels or movies from the mind of this Massachusetts crime-drama master are not requisite for enjoying “The Drop,” I don’t think, but being primed for his sort of tension surely helped me keep my wits…

I miss James Gandolfini, ‘Enough Said’

The characters played by James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus sure did look happy and comfortable together after those uncomfortable first date moments in “Enough Said.” I wanted to see the romantic comedy when it came around a year ago, but it opened against something more pressing, and in the one-a-week film blogger world that I’m…