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There’s an almost magical acting moment early in the haunted house thriller “Abandoned.” It’s a scene in which new mom Emma Roberts, playing a new mom with post-partum depression that’s keeping her from bonding with her baby. She picks the … Continue reading →

Out there and against the “Don’t say gay” grain of American political bigotry of the moment. Whistling through the graveyard audacity at its finest? Sept. 30.

Did she lose the accent to play the cinema’s most famous blonde? In an NC-17 take on Monroe’s life will people notice? Sept 23 we will find out.

It’s a staple of the vampire/werewolf/witch hunting genre, that moment when some cocky wiseass takes a gander at his or her quarry and asks a colleague that fateful, fatal question. “What’s so special about THIS one?” Holmes, you’re about to … Continue reading →

Smart play for this Paramount + series. Part Stallone in the heartland, just like, uh, Costner. Think he’ll fit in, a made man, a goombah amongst the Okies? Fuggedaboutit. Nov. 13.

July 5 this hits the street. Not heard a peep about it, a little known cast, a murky trailer that gives little away. But the horror fanoisie are all atwitter over it.

Quite the summer for Don and Melanie’s kid. This looks like Austen with a wink, and may work. Richard E. Grant and Henry Golding are in the supporting cast. Don’t recognize the hunk she swoons over. My favorite version of … Continue reading →

This is what happens when you let a guy doze off watching a “Green Acres” marathon. Jay O. Sanders might be the most famous face in “The Road to Galena.” Ben Winchell, Will Brittain and Aimee Teagarden are the leads. … Continue reading →

Listen to the way Spain’s matinee idol hits his lines, the relish he brings to saying his name “Poooos in Boots.” Damn he’s funny in this part. Same with Salma Hayek, their latest greatest pairing? “The Last Wish” is “coming … Continue reading →

The title is “Dreaming Walls,” so don’t dive into this documentary about New York’s famous — and infamous — Hotel Chelsea expecting a literal history lesson. Twelve stories of brick that opened on 23rd St. in 1884, it hosted Oscar … Continue reading →