Monthly Archives: August 2019

The world’s had plenty of time to make up its mind about David Crosby of Crosby, Stills Nash & (sometimes) Young. Heaven knows the man himself has given us the necessary data to form a defensible opinion. “Mouthy, self-righteous, self-destructive … Continue reading →

For my money, Craig Ferguson did the best late night talk show of this millennium. Not as searing and politically astute as Jon Stewart, not the populist cheerleader that Colbert has become, never built for the viral era that Jimmy … Continue reading →

Emily Blunt will be back, hubby Coach K is directing. Casting switches are kicking in at this stage. “Djimon Hounsou is replacing Brian Tyree Henry in the sequel to ‘A Quiet Place’ https://t.co/w85wCOCC1z https://twitter.com/THR/status/1161152165559361541?s=17

A Japanese manga about a mythic ancient Chinese civil war becomes a live-action Japanese feature film in “Kingdom.” It’s, in essence, a samurai sword fight film with Chinese touches and that “unified China” messaging that many a Chinese combat period … Continue reading →

“Gwen” has the tenor of a spooky folk Welsh folk legend and the grasping, gasping punch of an Industrial Revolution parable. Dark, helpless, grim and bleak? It’s all a part of the windswept and gray setting of this period-perfect period … Continue reading →

Short answer? No. Milo Ventimiglia a is a bland, if pretty, non-presence in the film. Nobody went to see it, and anybody looking for star power and charisma won’t see any sign of it from him in the movie. Whatever … Continue reading →

Every cable operator, all the dish services, losing subscribers to the tune of a million and a half last quarter alone. They are the newspapers of video content, profitable but dying. Quickly. Dead media walking. https://deadline.com/2019/08/u-s-pay-tv-subscriber-losses-more-than-triple-to-1-5m-in-q2-report-1202666232/

A rain-soaked forest and mountain top, kids being kids, until the guns come out, the kidnapping happens and the helicopters come looking for them. This striking Alejandro Landes feature opens Sept. 13 from Neon (of course)

Haunted by rural farming class poverty, terrorized by… Writer-director William McGregor’s “Gwen” looks perfectly gloomy, properly spooky as only “an old folk tale” can be. It opens Friday.

It’s another version of “Most Dangerous Game” (humans as “game”), and I’m not sure it is so politically touchy that it needed to be pulled. Trump wanted it yanked, and it was. https://t.co/F3KuM5x3hc?amp=1