Formula done right is one reason the lightweight romantic romp, “The Lost City,” works. Another is the unassuming, easy-going chemistry between its two leads, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.
When we think of the baby-boomer bible, Rolling Stone, we tend to think of Jann Wenner and Annie Leibovitz and even Cameron Crowe (“Almost Famous”).
The Derby is the oldest continuously held sporting event in America, and its 148thincarnation is this Saturday. So, the timing couldn’t be better to catch “Jockey,” a 2021 film currently streaming on home video.
As someone – Babe Paley? The Duchess of Windsor? – once said, “You can never be too thin or too rich.” Add “or too white,” and you’ve got the Abercrombie and Fitch mantra of the late’90s ...
I’d follow Thandiwe Newton anywhere, and I’ve been rewarded with such diverse gems as “Westworld,” “Crash” and “The Truth About Charlie.” So, when I came across her name in “All the Old Knives,” well….
The best play I’ve seen this century is called “Jerusalem” and it starred an actor I’d never heard of. His name is Mark Rylance, and I’ve sure as hell heard of him now.
The Will v. Chris Smackdown, Part Deux. As of this writing – a full week later – people are still talking about “The Incident” at the 94th Oscars.
Wow. Just when you thought the Oscars were going to go back to their usual safe (read, boring) selves, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on live TV over a perceived insult to his wife, Jada ...
Whose turn is it this year? A few weeks ago, I would’ve leaned heavily toward “The Power of the Dog,” a film that’s easier to admire than love. But now entities like the Directors Guild ...
if someone’s going to mess with “West Side Story,” we’re lucky that someone is Steven Spielberg
As careers go, being an actor is one of the most difficult. So whatever else anyone says about winning an Academy Award – Oscar curse and all that – it still helps.
Here’s the thing about something like the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which were handed out Sunday. Do you review the show itself or do you review the results and what they might bode for the ...
You don’t need a cheek swab to determine the lineage of “Parallel Mothers.” It is pure Pedro Almodovar – bold, brilliant and, on occasion, exuberantly bonkers.
So here we are with the nominees for the Academy Awards. True, there have been distractions since they were announced last week. Super Bowl LVI. Valentine’s Day. Ukraine (Yes? No? Maybe?) And something about Donald ...
Turn Guillermo del Toro loose in a neo-noir carnival and, visually at least, you get pretty much what you expect: a gorgeously lurid montage of everything from a pickled baby fetus to a howling geek ...
By the time “The 355” was over, I still had a lot of questions. Like, what were two Oscar winners, an Oscar nominee and Norman Reedus’ main squeeze doing in an inoffensive but essentially brainless ...
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair” is a very Coen brothers’ sentiment. So, it is perhaps not so surprising that a Coen, in this case, Joel, has tackled the Scottish play, as it is ...
Filmmaker, critic and historian Peter Bogdanovich, who, for a brief time in the 1970s, was about as famous as anyone in America, died on Jan. 6, the same day as cinema giant Sidney Poitier
To say that Sidney Poitier was the Jackie Robinson of Hollywood is just a beginning.
Having spewed out 10-Best lists for almost three decades at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and around a decade or so at the Atlanta Business Chronicle and, of course – the Saporta Report (my personal fave), I ...
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