I dialed into “So Help Me Todd” because I like Marcia Gay Harden, and it was bedtime and I needed a laugh to sleep better. I didn’t get the laugh, but I slept better. The show is third rate and the rest of the cast is beneath working with her. Harden is no Cate Blanchett […]

“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known.” “Manchurian Candidate.” In honoring the late, great Angelia Lansbury, the multi-talented actor who left us this month, Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville, is offering on Nov. 6 “The Manchurian Candidate,” John Michael Frankenheimer’s 1962 political thriller. In Frankenheimer’s film, with screenplay […]

Tucci is back. Our beloved Stanley Tucci, beautifully dressed and tanned, is back on CNN in season 3 of his tours of his native Italy, and we’re happy to see him eating again. So far we’ve watched one of our favorite actors prowling the streets of, (let me check my notes, and there are pages […]

You remember Allison Janney, of course, you do.

Despite the millions of stories about World War II, new ones, some recently discovered, keep popping up. “Suite Française,” directed by Saul Dibb (“Journey’s End,” 2017) is based on the late Irène Némirovsky’s novel about the German occupation of the small, village of Bussy, which by this time, 1942, had its hands full of fleeing […]

Finally, a warm inviting film that comes as autumn balm, while action movies burn the world down around us, writes J.P. Devine.

The temperatures have dropped. Soon it will be dark at noon. What then is for dinner? Here, on Netflix is a piece (several slices) for you busy folks to consider and salivate over. “Dig in” it says to the best pizzas from around the world, prepared by renowned chefs who bake passion, creativity and hard […]