Matt Bomer stars as hero Monroe Stahr, a gifted young movie executive in1930’s Hollywood, in the Amazon TV series “The Last Tycoon,” the latest adaption of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel. Billy Ray, the Oscar nominated screenwriter of “Captain Phillips,” is the creator and an executive producer of the show,… [Read More]
Christopher Nolan “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan’s nail-biting World War II epic thriller about the heroic evacuation of 300,000 plus British soldiers from invading enemy forces in May 1940 lives up to its hype. The film, which officially opens Friday, is both an artistic and pop culture achievement. It has already received… [Read More]
罗伯特•德尼罗收到了著名的卓别林哦ard for Lifetime Achievement from the Film Society of Lincoln Center at their annual gala at the Koch Theater Monday evening. (Previous recipients include Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas and Barbra Streisand.) “I feel really honored to receive this,” he… [Read More]
Quentin Tarantino provided his own 35 mm print for the 25th anniversary screening of “Reservoir Dogs” at The Tribeca Film Festival Friday evening at the Beacon Theater. The print is sensational and the bloody scenes are even more vividly red. Following the screening, Tarantino, Michael Madsen, Harvey Kettle, Steve Buscemi… [Read More]
Going In Style Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin, Ann-Margret and Michael Caine have 17 Academy Award nominations and four Oscars among them. The movie legends promoted their new film, “Going in Style,” a bank heist caper, at the Whitby Hotel in midtown Manhattan. They bantered, teased and goofed around for 30… [Read More]
“I built a whole career on flawed and fucked up characters,” Charlize Theron told journalists during a panel for the new Netflix series Girlboss, which she executive produced and which premieres April 21. If anyone knows how to play complicated, badass women on screen it’s Theron, who has perfected these… [Read More]
David Oyelowo, the British-Nigerian actor best know for his portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s “Selma,” turned up at a midtown Manhattan hotel last week to promote his new film, “A United Kingdom,” directed by Amma Asante. “A United Kingdom” is the real-life story of King Serese… [Read More]
Hidden Figures is about a trio of up-to-now unheralded African-American female mathematicians employed at NASA in the early days of the space program, couldn’t be timelier. Finally acknowledged are how these geniuses working under the onerous conditions of segregation and the bias against women and their ability to excel in science,… [Read More]
Donald Trump was up by 5:30 a.m. lashing out at Meryl Streep for negative comments she made about him at the Golden Globes Sunday night during her acceptance of the Cecil B. DeMille Award. The President-elect tweeted: Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me… [Read More]
“Hitman: Agent 47,” based on the popular video game, centers on an elite assassin, played by Rupert Friend (“Homeland), engineered to be the perfect killing machine. He’s emotionless, consistent, deadly. He’s known by the two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck, which means he’s a… [Read More]
Director James Ponsoldt’s new film “The End of the Tour” chronicles five days in 1996 when David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) interviewed famed “Infinite Jest” novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) for a (never-published) Rolling Stone magazine article. The interviews took place in the dead of winter at the novelist’s… [Read More]
Jeremy Renner stars as investigative journalist Gary Webb in the heart-pounding thriller “Kill the Messenger,” which chronicles his efforts to track down the link between drug dealers, contra rebels in Nicaragua and the C.I.A. in a series he wrote in the mid 90’s called “Dark Alliance.” When the articles… [Read More]