“The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” Every artist should see this movie. It could ignite Beatlemania all over again. But it’s the arc that gets to you. Four lads with no future forced to believe in themselves turn into jaded men who just can’t do it the same way anymore. That’s […]

Saoirse Ronan is that good in this movie. I know, I know, “Brooklyn” came out last year, was trumped-up as being Oscar-worthy, might have been nominated and even won, but I’ve given up on the Academy Awards, what was once a ritual can now be skipped, whether African-Americans are nominated or not, because movies have […]

This is a bad film and a good one too. It’s bad because the script is hackneyed, too busy with exposition, often unbelievable and certainly unnatural. But it’s good because it illuminates the insecurity of an artist. The most sensitive amongst us create the greatest work, they illuminate our warts, the human condition, that’s why […]

History is being rewritten. The seventies are now seen as the advent of the blockbuster era, the decade that launched “Jaws” and “Star Wars,” which changed the paradigm forever, to not only high concept fare purveyed during the summer months, but high grosses too. If you’re not swinging for the fences today, you’re not in […]