Daily Archives: September 9, 2024

It’s got to be the most unusual of dilemmas, facing your twilight years as one of the most beloved figures in American pop culture. James Earl Jones, a giant of the American theatre, Black theatre and screens big and small, … Continue reading →

The dialogue has a metallic tang and the smell of a just-fired revolver about it in “Rebel Ridge,” an “In the Heat of the Night” style tale of Southern justice in the golden age of “cash forfeiture.” Lines like “Just … Continue reading →

J.K. Simmons as Milton Berle, Willem Dafoe as the voice of Network doom, and Jason Reitman’s survey of how the hot mess that was and is “SNL” first made it on the air serves up players — Gilda and Jane … Continue reading →

So there’s a “Green Man” killer stalking the Plains in one of the great disasters in American history. “Slender Man” meets Ken Burns’ worst documentary nightmare. A mother tries to protect her children from the fatal choice to move to … Continue reading →

“Before Dawn” is a World War I saga as uninventive as its title, a flat recreation of the trenches of France and the young men who fought there that adds nothing to the extensive canon of films documenting “The Great … Continue reading →

Over fifty years after its release, Carl Reiner’s cult comedy “Where’s Poppa?” has lost some of its transgressive edge, but not a bit of its ability to make you cringe. A dark 1970 comedy about Jewish sons and Jewish mommas, … Continue reading →