Movie Review: ‘The Sting’ became a big colorful gambling melodrama, J.P. Devine writes

If you haven’t seen this 50-year-old “Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid" in pin stripe suits and soft fedoras, you’re gonna be surprised and delighted just as your family was 50 years ago.

Movie Review: ‘The Boys in the Boat’ is old fashioned and lovable. Just love it, writes JP Devine

Movie Review: ‘Shirley’ a powerful force in American politics

It’s sad that we have to reintroduce Shirley Chisholm after all these years, but with the political rise of Vice President Kamala Harris, why wouldn’t we?

MIFF Movie Review: ‘The Ghost Trap’ an engaging, professional voyage that is easy on the eyes, J.P. Devine writes

'The Ghost Trap' plays Wednesday, July 17, and Saturday, July 20, at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville.

MIFF Movie Review: ‘Daliland’ is about Dali’s journey down spiraling madness, J.P. Devine writes

Once you’re drawn into viewing Harron’s cinematic kaleidoscopic world of "Daliland," allow yourself to be transported into the work of one of the film world's most gifted actors, and that’s really why you’re here, J.P. Devine writes.

MIFF Movie Review: ‘Goodfellas’ the greatest lasagna of Italians ever, J.P. Devine writes

It’s rumored that Martin hated the title of the book, so Pileggi grudgingly changed it to "Goodfellas," J.P. Devine writes.

MIFF Movie Review: ‘Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story,’ who was clever, funny and brilliant

Coward was a genius of his art, a friend, a gentleman, and bright star of darker skies, J.P. Devine writes.

MIFF Movie Review: ‘The Ghost Trap’ is about trap war with rival lobstering family

The title is a bit misleading, it's and not even a documentary about lobster fishing, any more than Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not” is about the boat rental business, J.P. Devine writes.

Movie Review: ‘American Fiction’ is a touching story about a family

Movie Review: ‘Somewhere in Queens’ a soft landing in a world of hard ones

"I thought I had the ending in my pocket but I was wrong and it’s a soft landing in a world of hard ones," J.P. Devine writes.