Does ‘The Counselor’ have the best cast of any 2013 movie?
Director: Ridley Scott Screenwriter: acclaimed novelist Cormac McCarthy tries his hand at feature film screenwriting for the first time (he previously adapted one of his plays for a TV movie, and has...
View ArticleThe Good Book spawns a good number of movies
Friday’s release (Thursday, really) of Noah is just the latest in a mini-flood (sorry) of Biblically themed movies hitting the big screens this year. Already we’ve been witness to Son of God, expanded...
View ArticleCould this be the weakest movie opening lineup of 2014?
When did early to mid-December turn into the kind of barren landscape formerly reserved for times like late August or early March? It’s true we don’t get a lot of limited release films until a week or...
View ArticleAnd finally, the Oscar race begins
2015, the movie year, has been solid with blockbusters (Jurassic World, Avengers: Age of Ultron) and welcome surprise successes (Straight Outta Compton‘s three weeks at number one), but some of the...
View ArticleFinally, here are my favorite films of 2015
You can’t tell the players without …. having the chance to actually see them. Such is life outside the big cities. It always takes me extraordinarily long to complete my “best of” lists because, in the...
View ArticleWill you see what I see? or, My Summer 2017 Must-Watch List
That blurry line of what constitutes the start of the “summer” movie season has been in flux for years, and just three weeks ago, what is already shaping up to be one of the biggest movies of all time,...
View ArticleDid ‘Blade Runner’ predict the future?
With Blade Runner 2049 opening tonight — and with the internet and cineplex screens worldwide having been inundated with trailers for it for months — the movie, starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford and...
View ArticlePredicting the 2018 Golden Globes: Who will win and who should?
It’s time once again for my annual exercise in futility …………….. trying to predict the winners at the Golden Globes. The international cadre of journalists and photographers responsible for the Globes...
View Article35 books you need to read before the movie versions come out this year
If you are the read-the-book-before-you-see-the-movie kind of person, you’ve already missed out on Dolittle, The Turning and The Rhythm Section, among others — all based on novels — so far in 2020. And...
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