Trailer: https://t.ly/PY3QH Can there be too much Vince Vaughn? After watching “Bad Monkey” you’ll think so. You know, the guy with the quips, the man we first saw and adored in “Swingers.” I love Vaughn, and I have not read the book, but I’d be stunned if the role wasn’t tailored for him. As for […]

https://t.ly/zpquh I’m trying to figure out where I found this book. I always start my research on Amazon, because if reviews are good, they print them, and if there are no reviews by notable publications… That’s usually a bad sign. But I went to Amazon and found none of those famous reviews. Which flummoxed me. […]

The studios don’t make movies like this anymore. Then again, they were never blockbusters. They’d return their low budgets and hopefully some profits, but they wouldn’t set the world on fire, but they might stay in your heart forever. I’m not talking about AIP or New World. Those indies specialized in something grittier, edgier, delivering […]

“Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes” “Changes” David Bowie The Beatles were dismissed as teenage tripe until “Yesterday” and “Michelle,” the backwards vocals of “Rain” and “Sgt. Pepper,” and the adoption of the act by Leonard Bernstein and others in the pantheon of artists respected by establishment. The Beatles wiped out everything that came before […]