A Star Is Born
Hard-drinking rock star Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) ends up in a bar one night where he sees a waitress…
BlacKkKlansman: Joining Trump’s “Good People”
INFILTRATE HATE. One year after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that ended with a murdered counter-protester, this…
Mission Impossible Fallout: Under Hunt’s Skin
SOME MISSIONS ARE NOT A CHOICE. In my original review of the first movie in this franchise, I wrote…
Still Alice
LIVE IN THE MOMENT. 50-year-old linguistics professor Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) begins to notice disturbing little things about herself;…
Concussion
EVEN LEGENDS NEED A HERO. In 2002, a Nigerian-American doctor (Will Smith) in Pennsylvania begins looking into the deaths…
Notting Hill
CAN THE MOST FAMOUS FILM STAR IN THE WORLD FALL FOR JUST AN ORDINARY GUY? The most popular movie…
Aloha
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE BEFORE YOU CAN SAY HELLO. Military contractor Brian Gilcrest (Bradley Cooper) goes to…
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
DESPERATE TIMES. DESPERATE MEASURES. As the IMF is about to be shut down by the government, Ethan Hunt (Tom…
Blue Jasmine
After losing everything and suffering a mental breakdown when her wealthy husband (Alec Baldwin) is sent to jail on…
Rock of Ages
NOTHIN' BUT A GOOD TIME. In 1987, small-town girl Sherrie Christian (Julianne Hough) arrives in Los Angeles and is…
30 Rock: Making NBC Look Good
On my visits to 30 Rockefeller Plaza and the GE Building, I half expected to see Kenneth the page…
To Rome With Love
Woody Allen followed up his successful Midnight in Paris (2011) with another light-hearted excursion to a fabled, romantic city…
Hunt for Red October: Run Silent, Run Deep
INVISIBLE. SILENT. STOLEN. In 1988, Die Hard had been such a tremendous hit that a sequel was inevitable. The film’s director,…