Stop me if you’ve seen this before: the story of a guy plucked from obscurity whose talent helps make a band a huge hit, then because of drugs and booze and bad advice and ego, the group gets torn apart, only to be put back together again for a glorious finale. If you believe “Bohemian […]
I’m not a fan of most Melissa McCarthy movies. Like Will Ferrell’s work, much of it doesn’t appeal to me. However, I really liked it when Ferrell went the dramatic route in “Stranger Than Fiction” (review here), which is on my Movies You Might Not Know list. In fact, the only things I’ve liked McCarthy […]
Every month, I get a schedule of upcoming press screenings of movies. I look up their two-sentence plot summaries on IMDb, choose the ones I want to see, add their dates and venues to my iPhone calendar, and then forget about them completely until that day. I never watch trailers and try not to read […]
In “Hunter Killer,” Joe Glass plays a first-time US submarine captain caught in the middle of an escalating conflict with Russia, and he’s going to fix the problem his way, dammit! Naturally, his second in command, the executive officer, abhors every decision Captain Joe makes and protests loudly — until, in the end, he’s learned […]
You may not have heard this before, but drugs are bad. If someone is using drugs like meth, it can have a harmful effect on the whole family. There, now you don’t have to see “Beautiful Boy.” The movie is based on books published in 2008 by David Scheff (Steve Carrell) and his son, Nic […]
Here’s a wonderful remembrance by Leonard Maltin of his friend James Karen, who I grew up knowing as The Pathmark Man and later Jane Fonda’s boss in “The China Syndrome.” Little did I know that “Jimmy” seemingly acted with or knew everyone in movies and television.