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I think if I could be a famous celebrity, it would be Stanley Tucci. I’ve been a fan of his since he played villainous guest star roles in shows like WISEGUY and THIRTYSOMETHING back in the 80s. [...]

Screenplays have storytelling beats that almost every film follows slavishly. An inciting incident happens in the first 10 minutes to get the plot rolling. At the half-hour mark, the hero’s goal [...]

One of the better trends in the film business these days is not only the explosion of filmmakers trying their hand at short films, but the fact that the public has access to such shorts like [...]

I love it when a sophomore season betters the first since it’s very difficult to do. And as terrific as the first American dramedy series BEEF was, the Netflix series created by Lee Sung Jin has [...]

One of the marvels of screenwriter/show-runner David E. Kelley has always been his unique ability to integrate varying shades of drama and comedy into one cohesive narrative. For most [...]

The second season of YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS on Apple TV Plus has premiered and it is a terrific sophomore effort. The story of how a hedge fund manager maintains his tony lifestyle after [...]

My rave review of COMPANION last year was one of my shortest critiques ever as I did not want to give away the big twist in the film’s first act. My similar review for THE DRAMA may be even [...]

The cult hit READY OR NOT from 2019 was a horror comedy that not only had fun riffing on the tropes of the genre, but it managed to satirize Agatha Christie, love stories, and devil worship, all [...]

There’s a great movie within the just-opened PROJECT HAIL MARY. Unfortunately, it’s sharing screen time with a sophomoric buddy comedy between Ryan Gosling’s glib scientist and a space alien. The [...]

An art teacher once told me that you can only blend so many colors before getting mud. Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal has blended a lot of colors in THE BRIDE!, her revisionist take on Mary [...]