VALENTINES DIRECT FROM HOLLYWOOD
It’s been a while since I pinned some pin-ups on this page. Valentine’s Day seems as good a time as any to revisit these appealing, sometimes cheesy cheesecake photos. If you’re new to my website you may not have…
LAND OF MINE: TIMELESS AND EXPLOSIVE
Even though seventy years have passed, compelling stories from World War II and its aftermath keep surfacing onscreen. Land of Mine is a fictional film inspired by an inherently dramatic real-life situation: during their occupation the Nazis planted more…
THE MAKING OF HIGH NOON
The subtitle of Glenn Frankel’s new book, published by Bloomsbury, is The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic. That’s because the two subjects are inexorably intertwined. High Noon is also one of those successful ventures for…
STARS IN MY EYES
Award season is surreal. You find yourself on a first name basis with the world’s biggest stars and filmmakers—and I don’t attend a fraction of the events that occur almost daily. Every year I get the opportunity to be…
Blu-ray Review: The Light Between Oceans (2016)
By Greg Ehrbar. Michael Fassbender has become especially adept at characters with steely reserve. Whether they’re electronic or human, they are never robotic but they are composed of an alloy that allows the actor to create tense, internalized, restrained…
The Space Between Us
The Space Between Us bears faint echoes of other outer-space sagas but carves its own niche because its hero is a teenage boy. Asa Butterfield, whom we’ve gotten to know in such films as Enders Game and Hugo, gives…
ROBERT DE NIRO IN ‘THE COMEDIAN’—A WASTE OF TIME AND TALENT
Robert De Niro fully commits to his character in The Comedian even though he’s not a terribly likable guy. De Niro is a past master of this; after all, he played Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. But The Comedian…
