How ‘Priscilla’ Completes Baz Luhrmann’s Unfinished ‘Elvis’
“Priscilla” is everything “Elvis” wasn’t. The Baz Luhrmann film relied on sizzle, not substance. We watched in awe as “Elvis” recreated the icon’s look and sound, never bothering to reveal the man in the white jumpsuit. And Priscilla Presley? A weak subplot, at best. Sofia Coppola’s film turns “Elvis” on its head. “Priscilla” focuses on …
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Patricia Heaton Calls AOC ‘Mentally Unfit’
Patricia Heaton’s X feed can be as spiky as her iconic character on “Everybody Loves Raymond.” The actress still avoids most political skirmishes, using social media to connect with followers and share the lighter side of our digital age. She’s hardly like George Takei, Bette Midler or Rob Reiner – stars who religiously weigh in …
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Megyn Kelly: ‘We’re Witnessing the Collapse of Wokism’
Megyn Kelly has a personal gripe with the woke mob. It essentially ended her broadcast career in 2018. Kelly, then working with NBC News, downplayed outrage over children dressing in blackface in ways that enraged the social justice warriors of that time. “Truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who …
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31 Days of Horror – ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (2003)
Remaking a classic horror movie is a fool’s errand. Just ask Gus Van Sant, who faced a critical firestorm for his shot-for-shot remake of “Psycho.” Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” do-over deserved every negative adjective hurled at it. For every successful makeover – 1988’s “The Blob” – we get duds like “The Omen” and “Child’s Play.” The 2003 …
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Does ‘Shot in the Arm’ Run Cover for Fauci, CDC?
A Kennedy is tackling vaccine hesitancy on the big screen, but it’s not the one you think. Director Scott Hamilton Kennedy (“The Garden”) is behind “Shot in the Arm,” an upcoming documentary about vaccines both pre and post-COVID 19. Kennedy began the project prior to the global pandemic that struck in 2020. He continued on …
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‘The Holdovers’ Captures Grown-Up Movie Making at Its Best
We missed Alexander Payne movies. Remember “About Schmidt?” “Sideways?” “The Descendants?” “Nebraska?” Smart. Provocative. Adult. Comical. Wise. He swung and missed so hard his helmet came flying off with 2017’s “Downsizing,” but he’s back in fine form with “The Holdovers.” It’s not his best work, and the story threatens to obsess over class envy in …
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Bond Team in No Rush to Ruin Franchise
Patience is a virtue, especially if you hold the keys to the biggest movie franchise … ever. The Broccoli family oversees 007, AKA the James Bond film series. The saga began in 1962 with “Dr. No” and continued through Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as the super spy, “No Time to Die.” That’s a …
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31 Days of Horror – ‘Eight-Legged Freaks’
Scarlett Johansson won’t name check this genre film should she ever win an Academy Award. The “Avengers” star snagged an early paycheck via “Eight-Legged Freaks,” a horror comedy that cast the future star in a supporting role. The film’s lead is “Ready to Rumble’s” David Arquette, an ordinary Joe pressed into saving his town from …
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‘After Death’ Already Year’s Second Biggest Documentary
Angel Studios knows it can’t hit a “Sound of Freedom”-sized homer every time at bat. The company entered the theatrical space earlier this year with “His Only Son,” an indie drama that quickly recouped its costs. And then some. The studio’s “Sound of Freedom” became the year’s unlikeliest blockbuster, earning nearly $240 million worldwide. It …
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‘Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers’ Revived Sleeping Saga
Dwight H. Little’s “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers” gives us the title card of “October 30th, 1988” before the opening credits even begin and quickly announces that the film’s star isn’t simply Donald Pleasance but The Shape himself. Myers was absent from the once despised, now more appreciated “Halloween III: Season of the …
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