Actress Eileen Brennan, best known for her role in The Last Picture Show as a waitress with a generous soul, and as a martinet officer in Private Benjamin, has died at the age of 80. She passed away this past … Read more
Actor Dennis Farina has died in a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 69 and his publicist says the cause of death was a pulmonary embolism. Born and raised in Chicago, he spent three years in the U.S. Army before … Read more
If you think the fact that Only God Forgives brings writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling together again will make it anywhere near as good as Drive, think again. There’s a good idea in there somewhere, but it got lost in the execution. Maybe because there are several executions juxtaposed with scenes of cops singing karaoke.
Read more‘Only God Forgives’ can be forgiven, given the director’s other great films
[rating=3]Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, David Spade, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello, Nick Swardson and a whole lot of others
Writer(s): Fred Wolf & Adam Sandler & Tim Herlihy (based on characters created by Sandler and Herlihy)
Director(s): Dennis Dugan
Welcome to the latest meeting of the SNL alumni and the Adam Sandler acting company (some of the players are members of both groups). This time the setting for their gathering is a sequel to one of Sandler’s earlier films. That’s a first for Sandler, a sequel to one of his films.
Read moreThere is little grown-up about ‘Grown Ups 2’ but it will make you laugh
The excellent documentary film “Greedy Lying Bastards” may not have made it into the city where you live, but starting today you can see it.
We were first introduced to the Lone Ranger in the 1930s when it became a radio drama. It expanded into books and a long-running television series. It also spawned four film versions, the most recent a two-hour made for TV … Read more
Based loosely on the best-selling novel, World War Z is the latest entry in the zombie genre and it is a winner. Starring Brad Pitt as “Gerry Lane”, a former UN investigator who left his job to spend more time with his family, it opens as though it’s just another day in the Lane household. His wife “Karin” (Mireille Enos) and their two kids “Rachel” (Abigail Hargrove) and “Constance” (Sterling Jerins) are all getting ready to go out.
Jim Kelly, the martial artist who was a last minute addition to one of the greatest martial arts films ever, Enter the Dragon, has died. He was 67 years old.
Read moreJim Kelly, ‘Enter the Dragon’ martial artist, dead at 67
[rating=3]Starring: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Demian Bichir, Marlon Wayans, Michael Rappaport, Jane Curtin, Spoken Reasons, Dan Bakkedahl, Taran Killam, Michael McDonald and Thomas F. Wilson
Writer(s): Katie Dippold
Director(s): Paul Feig
Take an entirely too up-tight and straitlaced FBI agent, add in a Boston PD detective who is so far over the top as to be somewhere in the stratosphere and you have The Heat. Director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) has another winner in this female buddy-cop film starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy.
Channing Tatum is not a great actor but as an action hero he’s more than adequate.