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As a film critic and fan, I am often asked who my favorite movie stars are. When I say Natalie Wood is my favorite actress, most folks immediately exclaim, “Oh! She drowned, right?” and I cringe. [...]

Critics and audiences may be taken by the hooey that is BRING HER BACK, but it’s a poseur of a film, one that ignores its own internal logic and the logic of the real world, for that matter. It’s [...]

I’m on the record stating that for my money, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE is the best movie franchise because there isn’t a dog in the bunch (https://bit.ly/47gogF2). That cannot be said of [...]

If you only have heard the name David Frost associated with the award-winning play & film FROST/NIXON, you need to see the new MSNBC six-part documentary series DAVID FROST VS. airing on [...]

FIGHT OR FLIGHT is a movie for audiences who thought BULLET TRAIN was too demure. Director James Madigan, who transitioned from heading up second units to helming the whole shebang, knows action [...]

The first rule for actors in a comedy? Don’t act like you’re in a comedy. That simple advice is lost on the cast in ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR. They run around, bellowing every utterance, [...]

Florence Pugh is one of our greatest actresses and her new film THUNDERBOLTS* proves it. She not only deepens the character of assassin Yelena Belova, whom we’ve seen several times now in the [...]