“Week-End at the Waldorf” sounds like the title of a travel brochure, but it’s actually the name of a highly successful classic movie. Featuring an all-star cast of MGM players, this wartime extravaganza was a remake of “Grand Hotel” from 1932, updated to the more relatable setting of New York during World War II. This…
Next Two ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movies Delayed Until 2023, 2024
LOS ANGELES—The seventh and eighth movies in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise starring Tom Cruise have been delayed until 2023 and 2024 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, producers Paramount Pictures and Skydance said in a statement on Friday. “Mission: Impossible 7” had been scheduled to debut in movie theaters in September 2022, followed by “Mission: Impossible…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Glory’: Edward Zwick’s Searing and Moving Civil War Story
R | 2h 2min | Drama, Historical, War | Dec. 15, 1989 (USA)As unlikely a candidate to direct a historical war movie as any, Edward Zwick’s only previous feature film was the innocuous romantic comedy “About Last Night.” Made while Zwick was still the producer and show-runner for the popular but lightweight TV series “thirtysomething,” “Glory” proved he had what…
Director of ‘Unsilenced’ Reveals What Propelled His Movie
January 21, 2022
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This movie tells of the experience of a Tsinghua University student who spent 8 years of his youth behind bars and the story of an American journalist, sick of the Chinese Communist Party’s lies, who penetrated the regime’s scrupulous surveillance system and brought the truth back to America. The winding story that tugs at the…
Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Bringing Up Baby’: Director Howard Hawks’s Timeless Screwball Comedy
Not Rated| 1h 42min | Comedy | 18 February 1938 If I’d have known that the 1938 film “Bringing Up Baby” was a screwball comedy that moves along at a breakneck pace, I probably would have better prepared for it. But perhaps it’s a good thing that I didn’t, since the result of being taken…
Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘The Descendants’: When George Clooney Proved He Could Do It All
George Clooney is a man who excels at just about everything. How did that much good stuff all come down on one man’s plate?
A Good Cop [Episode 8: Fake News]
Episode 8: Elizabeth is shamed by the media and questions whether she should continue as a policewoman. Frankie comes face to face with a horrific tragedy and must decide what he should do about Elizabeth. Sammy helps Jaylen find his strength again. A Good Cop follows the lives of three cops at different stages of…
PBS Premieres an Updated ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ in Masterpiece Series
Ever since it was published in 1872, Jules Verne’s great adventure novel has delighted readers with its cavalcade of cameos for faded movie stars. At least that is the impression you would get from the Oscar winning 1956 movie. Regrettably, the cast of hundreds has not aged nearly as well as that of “It’s a Mad,…
Disney Censors ‘The Simpsons’ Episode From Hong Kong Site
If an episode of “South Park” that satirizes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was conspicuously excluded from an American streamer’s Hong Kong site, Trey Parker and Matt Stone would skewer them for it. However, Disney+ did exactly that when it censored for its HK customers the episode of “The Simpsons” wherein Homer Simpson visits Beijing. If you live in Hong…
Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’: Oddball Characters Meet Acerbic Wit
Approved | 1h 52min | Comedy, Romance Usually when I’ve watched romantic comedies, I’ve never gotten into them (at least the American ones). They seem either too schmaltzy or simply not funny. The few that are enjoyable have been older classics, such as 1941’s “The Philadelphia Story” and 1945’s “Christmas in Connecticut.” Not only are…
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