Peter O’Toole is in pure Movie Star mode. His energy and charisma are off the charts. His Irish accent is perfect. He’s utterly believable in every scene, right down to that final “Jaysus.”
What makes director Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 so compelling are two things: 1) the moral dilemma is expertly constructed by screenwriter Jonathan Abrams and 2) the audience struggles right along with everyone else trying to come up with the right answer. Nothing is spoon-fed.
Uptight, left-wing Hollywood has killed the movie comedy. So, for those of you who wish to see a “new” comedy, here are two classics, courtesy of George Hamilton, you might have overlooked. Love at First Bite (1979) and Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981) are, in my opinion, perfect comedies — hilarious, rewatchable, quotable, good-natured, filled with romance, and timeless.
I especially love how the movie pulls you in different directions by refusing to tell you what to think. All at once you root for and are repelled by Duddy.
While Red One has a lot to offer Christmas lovers and Christmas movie lovers, sometimes it’s too much. Way too much.
Vengeance is a remarkable movie—funny as hell, thrilling, moving, ridiculously intelligent, and one of my favorites of this new century—one-hundred percent.
Paul Feig, the director and co-writer of the all-female Ghostbusters (2016), is still blaming Trump supporters for that spectacular flop.
The socialist regime of Venezuela launched a brutal campaign against dissidents this weekend, branding their homes to scare them out of continuing to protest and forcing detained individuals to issue heavily edited “apologies” on social media spliced with media from Hollywood horror movies.
An “unprovoked” stabbing spree was carried out by a man donning a wig in Massachusetts, leaving four minor girls and two adults wounded.
“I found that O.J.’s acting was a lot like his murdering,” Zucker said. “He got away with it, but nobody believed him.”
This is a bad movie undermined by an unforgivably lazy script.
Martin Scorsese said he rewrote “Killers of the Flower Moon” after realizing he “was making a movie about all the white guys.”
DC’s latest superhero movie, Blue Beetle, is optimistically projected to earn just $25 million this weekend.
Oscar-winning director William Friedkin, who died this week at 87, always seemed to be about 60 years old.
They censored “The French Connection” (1971), and everyone went along with it.
This junk today is not worth seeing for free.
Left-wing Hollywood killed the movie star, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
We are told this is the first part of a two-part franchise finale. Then it is no more Fast & Furious movies. “Death, where is thy sting?”
It’s all there in John Wick: Chapter 4; everything we were promised in the previous chapters comes to a head.
Blake is another potent reminder of the power of art. In the end, it’s the art that remains, not the divorces, drug abuse, scandals, or even murder.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods is gay, according to one of the screenwriters.
The shallow, conformist, reactionary, provincial entertainment media are outraged at “Gone with the Wind” — again.
The impossibly beautiful actress and icon Raquel Welch died Wednesday at age 82
Chilly Scenes of Winter could never be made today. What a shame that is, especially when you learn it was birthed by two women.
“Marin Alsop, the female conductor namechecked by Cate Blanchett in her latest film ‘Tár,’ has slammed the project.”
Director James Cameron’s Avatar: Way of the Water is underperforming at home and worldwide, at least for right now.
Steven Spielberg was hoping for a comeback with “The Fabelmans,” but all he got was another reminder of the damage he’s done to his brand.
There was a time when Oscar heat meant big bucks at the box office. Those days are over.
The “A Christmas Story” house is up for sale in Cleveland, Ohio, after visitors enjoyed its museum and bed and breakfast for several years.
Five-time-Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu is out there blasting woke film critics as racist.
Well, Samaritan stinks. It’s a total waste of time, of Stallone, of, and, well, it just stinks.
Wolfgang Petersen, the German director who died this week at age 81, is a good example of not knowing how good you have it until it’s gone.
Zoë Kravitz is not grateful for the fact that all her dreams just came true. Instead, she’s a — you guessed it — victim.
The transgressive eroticism of “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls” director Paul Verhoeven is back. In place of Vegas dancers and ice-pick-wielding bisexual killers, his latest movie features lesbian nuns engaging in clandestine sex acts in 17th century Italy.
“Viewers have been warned about an ‘outright offensive’ character in the iconic movie Flash Gordon,” reports the Daily Mail.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has blocked the action movie Monster Hunter from appearing on several Chinese film review websites and ticketing apps following a backlash against a scene in the film that the Communist Party claimed was offensive.
China pulled the action movie “Monster Hunter” from its cinemas on Saturday following a backlash over a scene in the film in which a character makes a pun on the word “Chinese” that the Communist regime claimed was insulting.
Other than being awesome, something else these movies have in common is how re-watchable they are. Either the scares never wear off or, after they do, the movie is still a pleasure to watch
Here are the 53 Greatest Movies of the 21st Century… So Far, including “Joker” and “Dragged Across Concrete.”
An old-fashioned, American can-do movie, a story of everyday heroism, of those who will not be denied the basic human right to live and to stay alive in a manner of their own choosing.
