“Blitz,” director Steve McQueen’s latest film, gives us the very Irish and sort of American (born here) Saoirse Ronan, the young woman we all fell in love with as she stole our hearts in films like “Lady Bird” and, surely, in “Brooklyn.” And now she’s back and on our big screens (and now on Apple […]
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Series Review: ‘Bad Sisters’ Season 2 opener much darker, scarier, J.P. Devine writes
They’re back. The “Bad Sisters” is back on Apple TV+ and we’re grateful. Are we not? Does it not feel good to be Irish again? Well, ready or not here they are, the wonderful “Bad” Garvey Sisters. All are wonderfully played by an assortment of gifted women with co-creater Sharon Horgan (as Eva), Sarah Greene […]
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Movie Review: ‘The Post’ highlights breathtaking moment in American political history
“The Post,” as real today as then, highlights another breathtaking moment in American political history as is happening this very moment.
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Movie Review: ‘The Family Man’ a magical re-Christmas
I know. It’s from 2000 and stars Nicholas Cage, but it’s not that Nick Cage from “The Rock,” “Con Air,” Face/Off” and “Bringing Out the Dead.” None of that hairy, noisy crap that Nick sailed forth to. This is Nick Cage the actor, who was a good comic actor for the Coen Brothers in “Raising […]
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Series Review: Everyone cute and cuddly in ‘Nobody Wants This’
I’m shocked, shocked mind you, to find that this rabbi looks and acts like, well, like Adam Brody, J.P. Devine writes.
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Series Review: New ‘Matlock’ has nothing to do with the late Andy Griffith’s old ‘Matlock’
Well, there she is again — Kathy Bates. You remember Kathy? Of course you do. She made us hold our breath when she tied up the late James Caan and broke almost every bone in his body in “Misery.” Kathy has been around charming us in “A Family Affair,” scaring us in “American Horror Story,” […]
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Series Review: If you missed season 1 of ‘The Old Man,’ season two won’t make much sense
Season one is all there, and new season two episodes are up every Friday.
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Movie Review: ‘The Critic’ a drama of unexpected darkness where evil lives
Director Anand Tucker and writer Patrick Marber’s fun and devilish film is set in London in the early World War II bad old times. Tucker and David Higgs’ camera take us down the foggy and lamp-lit streets of London’s theater district. It’s here that something wicked comes. This will be Jimmy Erskine. The great English […]
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Movie Review: ‘Aloha’ unfolds happily in the end
NOTE: All ent. content will go online immediately once edited Yes, “Aloha” was released back in 2015, and a lot has happened since then, don’t you know. I’m only seeing and sharing it now because I’ve fallen in serious “like” with Emma Stone’s eyes, Bradley Cooper’s career and the political world. We find ourselves in […]
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TV Series Review: ‘Slow Horses’ is back, and not a moment too soon
The first hour of the new season, tells us that just as in ours, a strange new sinister cabal is afoot in the world and they’re scary, J.P. Devine writes.