Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

There isn’t much to “Before You Know It,” but where there is I have to say I absolutely adored. It’s a sisters comedy, one of those “walking and talking New York” tales of mismatched siblings, dysfunctional parents, and the frothy, … Continue reading →

“Star Wars” finally has the Germanic villain/film icon it has always needed, the great Werner Herzog, a directing icon at the Larry Olivier anything for a buck stage of his near retirement. Nov. 12 Disney takes on Netflix with stuff … Continue reading →

The late wit and novelist Gore Vidal once said “Never pass up an opportunity to have sex, or appear on television.” To that I would add “or spend time, in any way, with Jeff Goldblum.” I have interviewed him several … Continue reading →

Streaming later this year. So that’s a plus. It never ends.

The three saddest words we hear off the screen this year just might be, “Jesus, John Paul.” Sarah Greene speaks them, playing a Dublin mother of four, in “Rosie,” a heartbreaking, underplayed and intensely gripping Roddy Doyle story about modern … Continue reading →

Born out of a diptheria outbreak, inspiration for the animated “Balto,” and now this one. Oct. 25 it hits theaters.

An insanely violent C-movie thriller starring a guy in the headlines for divorcing Miley Cyrus? A classic “late August movie,” that’s “Killerman.” It’s about a money launderer (Liam Hemsworth) who rides around New York in a Lincoln Town Car, buying … Continue reading →

Sounds like The American Dream. A lot of ill- gotten cash, and no memory of how you got it. And being divorced from Miley? A price we all have to pay, eventually.

Details of the Mouse’s plans to build a “Star Wars” themed hotel have my attention. Characters wandering the corridors. I pop assume vid screen “windows” into space at several points, a PA system of Brit accented villain’s doing announcements. And … Continue reading →

Young Lexy Kolker looks so much like young Drew Barrymore that I had to double-check the credits to “Freaks” to make sure Stephen King wasn’t involved, that I wasn’t seeing a “Firestarter” sequel or remake. And as this dark, hallucinatory … Continue reading →