Monthly Archives: November 2017

So there’s a nice dust-up starting between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Jordan Peele, the sketch-show comic who wrote and directed “Get Out.” The Golden Globes-givers say “Get Out” will be entered in the “best musical or comedy” category … Continue reading →

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” is a film Jeremiad whose time has come. A searing, dark comedy tearing into unaccountable racist, homophobic police, the impotent rage of the wronged, the small-mindedness of small towns and the redemption of the seemingly … Continue reading →

There’s something about the “new girl” in school that makes us wary. The hair may be dyed blonde with streaks of pink, the shorts cut-off in that timeless teen “bad girl” fashion. But she’s utterly unquestioning when Beaver (Daniel Webber) … Continue reading →

Victoria Negri‘s “Gold Star” is a simple you’ve-got-to-come-home-again tale of a daughter forced to leave her life in the Big City to go back and take care of her infirm father. It’s no shock that “Vicki,” the character Negri wrote … Continue reading →

You know the bar’s been lowered by a genre, a franchise and a studio’s difficulties in a genre when “Justice League” gets a lot “Well, not BAD for Warner Brothers” reviews. What promises to be a “Wonder Woman” sized blockbuster … Continue reading →

If nothing else had happened at the movies this year, 2017 would still go down as that moment when Warner Brothers finally achieved parity — at least in tone and quality — with the Marvel men and women in tights. … Continue reading →

No, amigos. He doesn’t have the title role (all will be clear when you the see the movie, which is magical). But Anthony Gonzalez is the vocal star, playing a child who just wants to make music like his legendary … Continue reading →

They moved there to pursue her dad’s dream, to be a rich cardiologist serving the wealthy of California. “I always said we’d move to paradise,” he reassured the family. And look where they ended up — in seaside Palos Verdes, … Continue reading →

Robert Reich started warning about the ticking time bomb of American financial inequality shortly after quitting the Clinton Administration, where he’d been a fairly frustrated Secretary of Labor. Twenty years ago he gave speeches fretting about the “rage” and “resentment” … Continue reading →

So they’ve got a date in mind. And Daniel Craig is still under contract to do one more James Bond film. Even though the last film really looked as though he was done with Mr. Shaken-Not-Stirred. Craig will be 51 … Continue reading →