Daily Archives: November 13, 2023

In his prime, the 1940s to the 1960s, Kirk Douglas only made a couple of films that would have tipped his fans that he was born Issur Herschelevitch Danielovitch, and that among the things his name-change brushed over was his … Continue reading →

Netflix wasn’t going to get its hands on Disney’s “Star Wars” intellectual property in any form any time soon. But Zack Snyder apparently had this “Star Wars” pitch that he could rewrite into something “original,” a two-film two part saga, … Continue reading →

“Sitting in Bars with Cake” is a cutesy but limp rom-com with a heaping helping of “Big Sick” seriousness meant to knock us down off a sugar high it never achieves. Based on a memoir by Audrey Schulman and thus … Continue reading →

François Ozon’s latest is a period piece about “a bad actress” and a bad or at least unscrupulous lady lawyer who use a false murder accusation as a way to gin up publicity and score feminist points for equality. Shockingly, the … Continue reading →

Composer, Broadway icon, America’s Conductor, champion of orchestral music, New York landmark, poster boy for Tom Wolfe’s “Radical Chic,”Leonard Bernstein WAS classical music in America for much of his celebrated tenure at the New York Philharmonic. He was the first … Continue reading →