Movies
NY Times 25 Best Actors of 21st Century Revised: Here’s Our List, Starting with Meryl Streep, to Be Picked Apart Just Like Theirs
Want to cause upset and wreck havoc? Just make a list of the best anything: singers, actors, baseball players. There will be howls of...
Movies
Former Appalachia Postmaster Praises Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy” For Telling the Truth and For Fine Performances
EXCLUSIVE I wanted to review Ron Howard's "Hillbilly Elegy," which I enjoyed for its performances and intelligence. But then I started reading Film Twitter,...
Movies
Awards Could Bring Meryl Streep in Two Possible Best Actress Performances, One for the Oscars, One for the Globes
Meryl Streep, considered our greatest movie actress, is coming back to the awards circuit with two big performances next month. One could be for...
Movies
UPDATE Mel Gibson’s “Fat Man” Movie Bombs in 2nd Week Even After “Good Morning America” Shills For It
SUNDAY NOV 22 UPDATE "Fat Man" took in just $51,266 in its second weekend, for a total of $192,501 on 177 screens. It's a...
Movies
Review: Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis Lead a Soaring Cast in Oscar Buzzed “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
There are two main sad ironies in George C. Wolfe's soaring film adaption of August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
The first is obvious: the...
Movies
Dolly Parton — Newly Minted Vaccine Hero– Will Have Her Hit Songs Featured in Bobby Cannavale-Rose Byrne Musical Film
It's Dolly Parton Week, which is never a bad thing!
You may have heard that Dolly contributed a million bucks to Vanderbilt University for vaccine...
Books
Quentin Tarantino Publishing His Own Novelization of “Once Upon a Time” and Another About Movies in General
I guess I could call this a scoop. Everyone else is. This is a reprint of the press release from Harper Collins. If you...
Business
Box Office: Stain-Removing “Ammonite” and Mel Gibson’s Awful “Fatman” Find Few Takers in Theater Debuts
The two new movies actually being shown in theaters this weekend didn't find a lot of love.
"Ammonite," starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, took...