Anthony Hopkins, left, and Matthew Goode in a scene from“Freud’s Last Session.” 14 Sunset, LB Entertainment, Last Session Productions “Freud’s Last Session,” directed by Matt Brown (“The Man Who Knew Infinity”) is a dark film we don’t need right now, but it brings us the gifted Anthony Hopkins (“Silence of the Lambs,” an even darker […]

“Maestro” movie star Bradley Cooper’s big, new film about composer and world-famous manic conductor Leonard Bernstein, just opened on Netflix. Bernstein, even as a star, was always addressed as “Lenny” by everyone in his world. “Maestro” opens with an aging Bernstein, as he is being interviewed by a film crew at the end of his […]

What we have here is a story, one of many, of the man we all loved and thought we knew. Archibald Alexander Leach, better known as Cary Grant, was arguably, the most famous, best known and imitated movie star in film history. Director Paul Andrew Williams’ (“The Cottage,” 2008) “Archie” is partly based on “Dear […]

After spending a lifetime watching Charles Dickens, I settled long ago on Clive Donner’s 1984 version with the best Ebenezer Scrooge of all, George C. Scott. First of all, it was the best television production we’ve ever seen. Scott has all the requisite physical gnarls and attitudes to convey the loathing the public has for […]

Did you know that “ Love Actually,” the movie love story of eight different couples in Britain trying to figure how to get through Christmas 2003, will be dumped by Netflix on Dec. 25? 2003! That makes this the 20th anniversary of this big, wonderful Christmas story of eight everyday London couples. In Hollywood, there […]

Hold on, here they come again, in the long-awaited Season 3, writes J.P Devine

George Seaton’s “Miracle on 34th Street” is a miracle on its own, and we’re talking about it today because this is Thanksgiving Day’s special review, as there will be no newspaper on Thanksgiving. Here, at the end of November, when hundreds of Christmas movies are opening or streaming on our living room screens as turkey […]

“Forbid empathy. Empathy is weakness. Weakness is vulnerability.” The Killer’s credo. David Fincher (“Fight Club,” “Gone Girl,”) is back in all shades of black added by writer Andrew Kevin Walker, who adapted it from a French graphic novel by Matz and Lucy Jacamon. All players here are nameless, only given titles. At the opening, Fincher […]

For a very long time, we’ve read the praises of Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize “All The Light We Cannot See,” his biggest book that has captured the praise of readers world wide. It’s impressive to learn that in the 10 years it took him to finish it, he wrote six other books that won him […]