The Cotton Club Encore Directed by Francis Ford CoppolaWritten by William Kennedy and Francis Ford Coppola The review: I’ve not seen the original, but this encore version has a not-interesting [...]
Wild Rose Directed by Tom HarperWritten by Nicole Taylor The review: Tales of striving artists tend to be complicated and none more so than when those striving artists are women.* So it was [...]
The Beat Beneath My Feet Directed by John WilliamsWritten by Michael Müller The review: Only because of Luke Perry did I watch this and though there is ample Luke Perry,* I was not blessed with a [...]
Song One Written and directed by Kate Barker-Froyland The review: This film is a must-see for people who like to watch Anne Hathaway emote, like quiet films with lots of time for thinking, or [...]
(and other handy things to know about singing) Max Minghella’s Teen Spirit is so very blah that if not for the electrifying performance at the end, it would not at all be worth watching.* Elle [...]
The review: Tom Hanks’s That Thing You Do is a gentle pleasure of a movie from start to finish, capturing all that was shiny about 1964.* In this breezy movie, Tom Everett Scott (Guy Patterson) [...]
The review: The overlap of the Venn Diagram of Michael Gracey’s The Greatest Showman and the actual facts of P.T. Barnum’s life is probably a slim sliver, but that does not take away [...]
(not great everything else) The review: I’m thankful that Albert Magnoli’s Purple Rain exists, not because of the acting (not good) or the plot (mostly terrible), but because I never [...]