In 1973. [I learned yesterday that Joseph Failla, who I’ve mentioned on this blog and who contributed to Premiere’s Home Guide when I was running it in the 1990s and 2000s, died in hospital after experiencing shortness of breath. Like me, he was 62.) I remember in seeing Night of the Living D...

“Real talk:” Like so many of you, I had looked forward to the PlayStation 5 for several months prior to its late fall release, and upon its late fall release, I followed a Twitter account that kept track of the stores that had it in stock (where it would stay in stock for nanosecond), I kept ope...

"He strums the wire with his fingers." From The Counselor, Ridley Scott, 2013 Ridley Scott's The Counselor, from an original script by Cormac McCarthy, inspired quite a bit of critical hyperbole on both sides of the assessment scale, the most ridiculous of which was Andrew O'Hehir's very silly ...

Jane Fonda and Alan Rickman as Nancy and Ronald Reagan in Lee Daniels' The Butler. Leslie Nielsen did not return from the dead to play the white-haired fellow behind them. And the movie is the above-speculated curiosity but it's also more, as I discuss in my review of the picture for MSN Movi...

I’m pleased to be able to report that My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom And Orson Welles (edited and with an introduction by Peter Biskind, Metropolitan Books) is a substantively better book than most of its positive notices would have you believe. To be honest, when I fi...