My friend Eric Kroll used to hang out with filmmaker Paul Schrader, particularly when he was making “Hardcore.” Known as “the king of the feti…
Yes, I am an early adapter. That means I want to be the first person who has any new technology.
Yes, I am an early adapter. That means I want to be the first person who has any new technology.
We all know the story of “The Little Mermaid” — that fairy tale about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea to gain a human s…
With “Fast X” in theaters, let’s take a look at Vin Diesel’s best movies. No, that’s not a contradiction of terms. He’s created a popular Marv…
Yesterday I was talking with my old colleague Michael Patrick Hearn, author of “The Annotated Wizard of Oz,” a compendium of facts about L. Fr…
I used to see Greta Garbo walking along the sidewalks of the Upper East Side in New York. She seemed such a lonely figure. Maybe she had achie…
Some movies are hard to watch. They depict uncomfortable truths, or scenes so graphic we want to turn away our eyes.
Ever belong to a book club? If so, you’ll know that sometimes it’s difficult for members to stay on topic. In the 2018 film “Book Club,” it wa…
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist known for her paintings of indigenous people and landscapes. She became recognized following her exhibit in C…
Love her or hate her, you’ll have to admit Jane Fonda is a talented and resilient actress. From her lineage of being Henry Fonda’s daughter to…
Soon we will have to ask ourself: Are we watching a Marvel movie or a DC movie?
The original English title was “All the People I’ll Never Be,” but Sony Pictures Classics renamed Davy Chou’s film “Return to Seoul.” They pla…
Before Chris Pratt starred as the Star-Lord in “Guardians of the Galaxy” and a dinosaur trainer in the “Jurassic World” trilogy, he was a doof…
With the opening of “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” — the new movie based on Judy Blume’s beloved YA novel — we decided to look at the …
Fool me once, as they say. The 1993 live-action “Super Mario Bros.” film was a critical and commercial failure, so why bother with another mov…
If you wander into the small bookstore tucked in a corner of The Studios of Key West, you may very well be assisted by a slender brunette who …
Joaquin Phoenix may be typecasting himself. By eschewing “normal” roles, his penchant for wonky characters is becoming a pattern.
Director Sam Raimi is known for both low-budget horror flicks and blockbuster superhero smashes. With the debut of “Evil Dead Rise” — based on…
Back in 1978, Bruce Campbell had just quit his job as a taxi driver, and Sam Raimi was studying literature at the University of Michigan. Aspi…
I admit it: Most of my life I thought Herb Alpert was Mexican. After all, he led a band called the Tijuana Brass. Tijuana is the fifth-largest…
With Nicolas Cage playing Dracula in the new movie “Renfield,” we decided to look back on the best movies of his storied career. After all, he…
R. M. Renfield, aetat 59. Sanguine temperament, great physical strength, morbidly excitable, periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which…
Remember Bob Ross? He was that bushy-hair painter you’d see on PBS. His instructional show ran from 1983 to 1994. You can still catch rerun in…
There have been a number of interesting films about the television industry. We turned to Yardbarker.com for its list of the best of the best.…
How do you make a film about inventing Air Jordan sneakers without portraying basketball player Michael Jordan in the story? Trust director an…
The world’s leading role-playing game — Dungeons & Dragons (or D&D, for short) — was invented by two geeks back in 1974, setting off t…
Filmmakers often see games as metaphors for life and death; games that involve challenges, gambles and an incentive to win at all costs. But m…