Julie Benz Living Life off the Ricochet by Jay S. Jacobs Julie Benz has made a career as part of mysterious, dark, brooding TV drama, so it’s not a huge surprise that her latest role – that of the wife of a southern judge involved in a murder in the TNT adaptation of Sandra Brown’s best selling … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Marcia Gay Harden Is Not That Innocent
Marcia Gay Harden Is Not That Innocent by Jay S. Jacobs For years now, Marcia Gay Harden has been one of the finest actresses on stage, screen and TV. Yet, despite the fact that she has a face that everyone knows, somehow, she has never completely become a household name. Still, she plugs away, having … Continue reading
The Help (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
THE HELP (2011) Starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O’Reilly, Allison Janney, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Chris Lowell, Mary Steenburgen, Anna Camp, Aunjanue Ellis, Ted Welch, David Oyelowo, Brian Kerwin, Wes Chatham, Shane McRae, Ashley Johnson, Emma Henry, Eleanor Henry, Dana Ivey and Leslie Jordan. Screenplay … Continue reading
Beauty and the Beast – The Enchanted Christmas (A PopEntertainment.com Video Review)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE ENCHANTED CHRISTMAS (1997) Featuring the voices of Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry, Haley Joel Osment, Frank Welker, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, Kath Soucie, Paul Reubens and Angela Lansbury. Screenplay by Flip Kobler & Cindy Marcus and Bill Motz & Bob Roth. Directed … Continue reading
Super 8 (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
SUPER 8 (2011) Starring Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Riley Griffiths, Kyle Chandler, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Gabriel Basso, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Jessica Tuck, Joel McKinnon Miller, David Gallagher, Britt Flatmo, Jade Griffiths, Dan Castellaneta, Bruce Greenwood, Dale Dickey, Glynn Turman, Richard T. Jones, Jack Axelrod and AJ Michalka. Screenplay by JJ Abrams. Directed by … Continue reading
West Side Story: 50th Anniversary Edition (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
WEST SIDE STORY: 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION (1961) Starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland, Ned Glass, William Bramley, Tucker Smith, Tony Mordente, David Winters, Eliot Feld, Bert Michaels, David Bean, Robert Banas, Scooter Teague, Harvey Hohnecker, Tommy Abbott, Susan Oakes, Gina Trikonis, Carole D’Andrea, Jose De Vega, Jay Norman, … Continue reading
The Greening of Whitney Brown (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
THE GREENING OF WHITNEY BROWN (2011) Starring Sammi Hanratty, Aidan Quinn, Brooke Shields, Kris Kristofferson, Charlotte Matthews, Slade Pearce, Anna Colwell, Keith David, Natalia Dyer, Lily Rashid, Kodie Lake, Cameron Gaskins, Tim Lake and Dick Vermeil. Screenplay by Gail Gilchriest. Directed by Peter Odiorne. Distributed by Arc Entertainment. 87 minutes. Rated PG. The Greening of … Continue reading
London Boulevard (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
LONDON BOULEVARD (2010) Starring Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, Ray Winstone, Ben Chaplin, David Thewlis, Anna Friel, Jamie Campbell Bower, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan, Matt King, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ophelia Lovibond, Velibor Topic, Lee Boardman, Alan Williams and Jonathan Cullen. Screenplay by William Monahan. Directed by William Monahan. Distributed by IFC Films. 103 minutes. Rated R. London … Continue reading
Evanescence – Do What They Want
Evanescence Do What They Want by Jay S. Jacobs It is rare for a band to explode on the scene like Evanescence did in 2003. It is also rare for a band to have so much turmoil in success’ wake. However, not quite a decade into its popularity, a greatly changed but still rocking version of the … Continue reading
Boyz II Men – Twenty (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
Boyz II Men – Twenty (Koch) Has it really been 20 years since “Motownphilly?” Apparently, it’s been that long, and the best-selling R&B group Boyz II Men are reminding us of their staying power and their ability to live up to their name. No longer boyz but grown men, their aptly entitled anniversary album, Twenty, is a very pleasant jaunt … Continue reading