Ongoing Spotlight – August 7, 2017
THE DARK TOWER [PG-13] D Franchise building isn’t easy, nor is there a single straightforward means of approaching the process. …
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Maudie’s Sweet Charm
Is there another actor working today with more sweet and innocent charm than Sally Hawkins? She burst on the scene …
Wild ‘Girls Trip’
On the heels of the tonally disjointed girls gone wild movie Rough Night, here comes director Malcolm D. Lee’s offering, …
Fresh and Funny ‘Spider-Man’ Reboot
How funny is it? Quite, thanks to the eager and earnest presence of Tom Holland as a high school-age Peter …
Sofia Coppola’s Beguiling Film
Back in 1971, Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Dirty Harry) steered Clint Eastwood into The Beguiled, …
Ongoing Spotlight – June 26, 2017
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT [PG-13] D Guy Ritchie’s recent “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” practiced a wholesale flouting of …
A ‘Hero’ For All Seasons
More than any other actor I can think of, Sam Elliott is the epitome of a hero, despite the fact …
Ongoing Spotlight – June 19, 2017
CARS 3 [G] B- All movie franchises face the same challenge during their third installment. How do you create a …
Tom Cruise Is Getting Old
How long has it been since the first time Thomas Cruise Mapother IV laced up his shoes and raced across …
Israeli ‘Wedding Plan’
Writer-director Rama Burshtein is a New York-born filmmaker with an uncompromising focus on revealing the lives of Israeli women struggling …
