*1/2 out of **** Rated R for strong language and a brief nude photo Released: October 16, 2015 limited; expands October 23 and 30 Runtime: 121 minutes Starring: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace, Dennis Quaid, Elisabeth Moss, Bruce Greenwood, Stacey Keach You know something’s wrong when the movie that wants to lionize a TV network’s [...]
***1/2 out of **** My review of Mad Max: Fury Road (click here), for Crosswalk.com, the far-better-than-average summer blockbuster, made with spectacular vision, emotional pathos, and Charlize Theron's Furiosa - the best female action hero since Sigourney Weaver's Ripley from the Alien saga. Mad Max: Fury Road is ranked #9 on my Top Ten List for 2015. An excerpt from my [...]
I guess Chris Pratt will have to find another franchise to reboot. Indiana Jones producer Frank Marshall (and husband of Kathleen Kennedy, the President of Lucasfilm who's in charge of the beloved property) is squashing speculation that someone else will be cast as the world's most famous archeologist, saying "we're not doing the Bond thing". I hope he just means for Indy [...]
No, Richard Gere isn't homeless. But as a result of the film he made about being homeless (in select theaters now; my review here), it caused somebody to think that he was. The result is exactly what Gere and his fellow filmmakers were hoping for: to start a conversation about our nation's homeless. The picture [...]
Much has been made about why we haven’t seen Luke Skywalker yet in any of the promotional materials for The Force Awakens – not on the official poster, nor in any of the three trailers (save for the one metal hand rising up to R2-D2, out from under a dark cloak). The most popular speculation trending [...]
Despite having never even been nominated for an Academy Award, (outrageous! - but Cary Grant never won one either, so great company there), Maureen O'Hara - who passed away Saturday at the age of 95 - was one of the great actresses and striking screen idols of Hollywood's Golden Age. O'Hara shot to stardom during the black-and-white era, [...]
To see just how unreliable even the most convincing conspiracy theories are, watch this. In a compelling 12-minute presentation, someone has concocted the theory of how filmmaker Robert Zemeckis actually predicted the 9/11 attacks throughout the Back To The Future films – over a decade before the attacks even happened - and then confirmed that's what he [...]
In the debut of Variety's 2015 Awards Season short video series "Contenders Conversations", the trade mag sits down with Matt Damon and director Ridley Scott to discuss the most popular film of the fall season, the emotional "science faction" adventure (as Damon dubbed it) THE MARTIAN.
Recently we saw Daisy Ridley - aka Rey - respond to the new FORCE AWAKENS trailer, with overwhelmed tears. Now John Boyega - aka Finn - gives us his response. It's pretty straight-faced for awhile, but then at the :50 mark it starts to build...and build...until he just can't contain himself. COME ON!
**** out of **** Rated R for strong language Released: October 9, 2015 limited; wide October 23 Runtime: 122 minutes Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, Katherine Waterston Steve Jobs is ranked #7 on my Top Ten List for 2015 From start to finish, everything you see in Steve Jobs never [...]
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