I’m old enough to have seen Star Wars: a New Hope in the theaters (not the initial release, but the re-issue a year or two later), and was a fan, mostly more in my younger years. Still, I wasn’t sure I wanted to see Solo after all the bad reviews. Last week I got the timing off and would have had to wait a while to see the film I’d planned to see, so instead I saw Solo and was pleasantly surprised. It won’t be my favorite Star Wars film, but it was rather enjoyable. A film podcast I listen to – At the Movies with Arch and Ann – features Washington Post columnist Ann Hornaday, who had made repeated negative comments about the film and criticized Ron Howard, calling him “workmanlike.” Another listener called her out on that in the recent podcast, reminding her that he directed A Beautiful Mind , Frost/Nixon , and Rush , all great films. Hornaday did agree to that and then went on to blame the screenwriters (Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon), and made mention that if a ...