It’s Denzel as You’ve Never Seen Him in Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’
Aug20

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...

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‘And Just Like That’…Was It? We Can’t Unsee the S*&%!
Aug16

‘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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Liam Neeson & Pamela Anderson Hit the Target in ‘The Naked Gun’
Aug11

Liam Neeson & Pamela Anderson Hit the Target in ‘The Naked Gun’

Just when you think you’ve seen this before in every cop/crime thriller, the bank robbery in which the bad guys are just about to get away, along comes Liam Neeson. But wait. We first see him as a little girl sucking a lollipop. Neeson is usually the one chasing the people who stole the little girl, but this time, it’s all about the comedy instead of who’s been, well, taken. It’s Neeson in The Naked Gun, now in theaters, as the son of...

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‘My Oxford Year:’ A Diploma in Dumbness
Aug08

‘My Oxford Year:’ A Diploma in Dumbness

Judging by the pre-release marketing campaign, it looked like My Oxford Year was going to be a comedy somewhat along the lines of the popular Netflix series Emily in Paris. A fish out of water story of a scrappy young American woman making her way in a foreign European country. How much fun that promised. A parable of a student at England’s premier university who’s already landed a prestigious post-college job at Goldman Sachs in New...

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It’s Ed Sullivan At His ‘Sunday Best’ In New Documentary
Aug07

It’s Ed Sullivan At His ‘Sunday Best’ In New Documentary

When you think of The Ed Sullivan Show, the first thing that comes to mind is the epic, iconic, inaugural American appearance of the Beatles that immediately became a massive game-changer in global pop culture. And if you go back a few years, there was a similar seismic moment when Elvis Presley first appeared on the CBS Sunday night variety show. Through his decades of being the host, Ed Sullivan continued to transform the cultural...

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