Given that this year marks the twentieth?anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter novel (well? it had already been published in the UK in 1997, but the US version didn?t come out until 1998), it seems fitting to go back and watch the films that were such an integral part of my childhood.?…
Another DC series developed by Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg, and Marc Guggenheim, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow centers around a hodgepodge team of heroes who travel through time, solving problems and creating new ones. Firestorm (Victor Garber and Franz Drameh), Atom (Brandon Routh), White Canary (Caity Lotz), and Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell) remain consistent from…
In J. K. Rowling’s “other” series, a group of downtrodden, often ignored young people band together to confront an apocalyptic evil while dealing with the usual repertoire of teenage angst. Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Rowling wrote three stories,?The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm,?and?Career of Evil, from 2013-2015 that have now been adapted into a BBC/Cinemax/Warner…
Fleshing out his Pepsi Max commercial role as Uncle Drew, Kyrie Irving hit the bigtime filming a sports comedy based on a commercial character, just months before he would lose his first season as the Boston Celtics point guard. Directed by Charles Stone (Drumline, Mr. 3000,?the Budweiser Whassup? campaign), the film attempts to hoot and…
United States Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) went after hyper-rich guy Bobby Axelrod (Damien Lewis) in the first season of Showtime’s?Billions, providing audiences the opportunity to watch two character actors of some note tee off on each other. But as we’ve seen more than a few times, the hyper rich have a tendency to get…
Watching the film, I constantly wondered why these people would respond to Abraham with kindness when he was always so mean-spirited. But then that is what makes it grace.
The fourth season of Supergirl?is set to premiere on October 14, but you can catch up on the high-powered events of the third season now. With Melissa Benoist in the titular role, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s characters have been furthered along by Greg Berlanti (Dawson’s Creek, Riverdale) to partner throughout the Arrowverse with Green…
Chris Pratt is back. The dinosaurs are back. But the world around them is changing. Some of that may have to do with a new director – J.A. Bayona – who has a background in horror (The Orphanage, A Monster Calls). Previous director Colin Trevorrow did help write the script (and will return for the…
Based on the true story of author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Colette?is a young woman from the countryside that falls in love with a Parisien 14-years her senior named Willy. Once they move to Paris, she agrees to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel for her husband. As her ?Claudine? series takes off in popularity, her confidence in her…
It?s cloudy, it?s windy and after an oppressively hot summer, this September morning is cool and refreshing for the first time in months. I walk quickly down the street, push through the revolving door and emerge suddenly into the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel. It?s fancy, busy and about 30% of the well-dressed faces feel…
