Smell ‘The Roses’ and Revel in the Couples’ Comedy
Benedict Cumberbatch is not known for comedy. Neither is Olivia Colman, unless you count her brief turn a few years back as Chef Terry on The Bear. But together as Theo and Ivy Rose in the Searchlight feature film The Roses, they are an unbeatable comedic couple in an eminently watchable two hours. In the adaptation of Warren Adler’s novel The War of the Roses and the 1989 film starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, we first...
The Celebrity Fan Holds All the Power in ‘Lurker’
Everyone who works in the entertainment industry knows someone like this, a person who can best be described as “someone who would step over their dead grandmother to get next to a celebrity.” In the new film Lurker written and directed by Alex Russell, Matthew/Matty (portrayed by Théodore Pellerin) is that person—and ironically he lives with his grandmother, who’s not dead– yet. Matty works at a trendy clothing store on LA’s...
‘The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox’ is a True Crime Must-Watch
Grace Van Patten and Giuseppe De Domenico as Amanda and Raffaele Murder victim Meredith Kercher Years after one of the most highly publicized murder cases of the 21st century, Amanda Knox is trying to take her own story back with the new Hulu eight-part series, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. I was gripped by the first two episodes, which dramatize her life story before she landed in Perugia, Italy for a year of college study abroad...
It’s Denzel as You’ve Never Seen Him in Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’
What a joy to see Denzel Washington running through a subway station looking almost as trim and fit as he did 25 years ago during his Oscar-winning role in Training Day. But this time, in Highest 2 Lowest, his fifth collaboration with acclaimed director Spike Lee, he is the good guy in a reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s classic film High and Low. The story takes a while to get rolling but the set-up is enjoyable to watch if you dig...
‘And Just Like That’…Was It? We Can’t Unsee the S*&%!
The love that millions of people have had for the iconic characters of Sex and the City that persisted through hate-watching its sequel And Just Like That has now turned to utter disgust for many viewers after the series finale Thursday night. Gorgeous images of the fashion, the beauty, the glamour, the sex, the cocktails, New York City hotspots – all wiped out by the sight of literal shit overflowing in a toilet bowl? And this was...
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