Screwball is the unbelievably true story of how a petty dispute between two petty criminals brought down the world?s highest-paid baseball player. Director Billy Corben, the outstanding documentarian of Cocaine Cowboys and six other features, illuminates the shady worlds of South Florida?s steroid scene and Major League Baseball?s complicated relationship with performance-enhancing drugs. The film…
Ocean’s 8?steals a play from the Star Wars playbook, setting up a Sandra Bullock-driven standalone story in the world of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) of?Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve,?and?Thirteen. As Debbie Ocean, Bullock’s character sets out to rob the Met Gala in New York City, with a band of enterprising female criminals (and criminals-to-be). While Danny Ocean…
Here’s a necessary disclaimer: I was not a fan of?Mister Roger’s Neighborhood. I have no emotional childhood connection to the show or to the man Fred Rogers, maybe because I don’t like cardigans or puppets. But?Won’t You Be My Neighbor?is fantastic. “The only thing that really changes the world is when someone gets the idea…
In the historical drama Operation Finale, a crack team of Mossad agents infiltrates Argentina after hearing news Adolph Eichmann, one of Adolph Hitler?s inner circle, continues to remain at large. Led by Peter Malkin (Oscar Isaac), the team takes Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) hostage, interrogates him, and attempts to extradite him back to Israel. But while…
“There is an answer for every question.” — Joe West Six months after Barry Allen AKA The Flash (Grant Gustin) sacrificed himself into the Speed Force Prison to stabilize it, Central City needs him back before a powerful samurai razes the city. Team Flash, made up of Allen’s one, true love Iris West (Candice Patton),…
TV premieres will always have the need to hook the audience from the opening frames to engage them for ratings and word-of-mouth publicity. Leaving a woman in a body bag naked and covered with tattoos in the middle of Time Square certainly has that kind of power – like the openers to?Lost,?The Following,?Game of Thrones…
Gotham?is the best DC television show on TV, since?Smallville. While?Arrow,?Supergirl, Krypton, DC Legends of Tomorrow, and others have entertainment value – and bring a new flair to how their subject matter is presented -?Gotham?regularly provides an opportunity to see the hometown of one Bruce Wayne AKA Batman from a new perspective without so diluting the…
by Tom Lester, Contributing Writer A very unlikely movie to review from a faith perspective for a vast variety of reasons is Catch-22. Directed by Mike Nichols, it is based on the book written by Joseph Heller. I actually read the book after seeing the movie and have found the book much more to my…
Puppets abound in the latest film from screenwriter Todd Berger, a noir comedy that combines the clever work of the Jim Henson Company and the dynamic talents of Melissa McCarthy. In The Happytime Murders, McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Joe McHale, and Elizabeth Banks star alongside a blue puppet named Phil Philips (played by Bill Barretta) in…
If you’re a fan of?Naval Criminal Investigation Service?0r?NCIS, then you know already that the fifteenth season of the hit CBS show will forever be defined by the departure of Pauley Paulette. While it continues to roll on with original material involving cases that touch on military life around Virginia, there will be a hole there…
