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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 [...]

Hi friends, I’ve drawn caricatures of all ten Best Picture nominees this year and you can get your digital, downloadable set of them for just $20. Send your email to me at [...]

It’s a privilege to be able to see the Oscar-nominated shorts and thanks to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences for making them available to the masses through theatrical release [...]

One of the unexpected delights about the Oscar Animated Shorts screening in theaters for a few weeks before the Academy Awards ceremony each year is how adult-centric the cartoons tend to be. [...]

When I first heard about the new L.A. crime drama entitled CRIME 101, I worried that it might be one of those Jason Statham or Gerard Butler type thrillers where taglines become dialogue. (Can’t [...]