Daily Archives: November 23, 2018

“The Front Runner” is a solid if not quite sensational thriller with villains around every corner, including one the director thinks is the hero. There’s the press corps — particularly Miami Herald reporters Tom Fiedler and Pete Murphy (Steve Zissis … Continue reading →

Watching Alex Pettyfer play scenes in which he’s in psychotherapy in his directing debut, “Back Roads,” the temptation is overwhelming to put the actor himself on the couch. With this film and his previous one, “The Strange Ones,” a dark, brooding same-sex … Continue reading →

Impressive. But still seems like one of the most pointless remakes ever. July 19, James Earl Jones returns as the father of…“The Lion King.”

Finn Wittrock of “The Big Short,” “La La Land” and TV’s “American Horror Story,” makes a reasonably charming rogue with his hooks in the girl who got away in “Write When You Get Work,” an amusing-enough “long con”  comedy set among … Continue reading →