Last Vegas The cheesy pun in the title of Last Vegas pretty much lets you know how seriously this film can – or should – be taken. It’s silly, it’s goofy, it’s flashy, it’s light. Surprisingly, it’s also not all that bad. Last Vegas tells the story of four seventy-ish Brooklyn boyhood friends whose lives … Continue reading
Comic-Con 2013 – Geeks Run Amok in New York! Story and photos by Mark Doyle So, another year of Comic-Con New York and another year of the ever-lovin’ male fantasy. Hot women in costumes parading around for our viewing pleasure. Spending the full four days – well actually three days – walking the aisles of the … Continue reading
Monsters University Pixar has been in the middle of a minor slump, as far as making films go. For the company’s first decade or so, they made hardly a wrong move. Instead, they piled up classic after classic, from Toy Story to Finding Nemo to Cars to even quirkier fare like Ratatouille and Wall-E. However, … Continue reading
Static A young couple, author Jonathan Dade (Milo Ventimiglia of Heroes) and his wife Addie (Sarah Shahi of Fairly Legal), have been staying at a lovely huge house in deep isolated woods. They have been there a few years as he is working on finishing off his sophomore novel after having a surprise best-seller with … Continue reading
About Time About Time is literally about time: time travel, to be exact. But more to the point it is about love and family and embracing all the moments that are special in life. The time travel aspect, while certainly intriguing, is at service to the storyline, it is not the whole thing. The ability … Continue reading
Carrie Carrie was responsible for a lot of firsts. The original 1974 novel was horror master Stephen King’s first published book. (He had written ‘Salem’s Lot and two other novels before Carrie, but they were not released until Carrie took off.) The 1976 film version of Carrie, which is greatly responsible for the novel becoming … Continue reading
Gravity There are certain films that you know are so well made that you feel that you should like them more than you do. For me, Gravity is one of those films. The movie is spectacular, disorienting, overwhelming and amazingly well put together. (It is particularly visually awe-inspiring in IMAX.) It’s also, I’m sorry, just … Continue reading
Harry Lennix Exposing The Blacklist and the Bard by Jay S. Jacobs Many actors wait around for years to land the perfect role. Harry Lennix has more radical thinking when it comes to his career. He’s not going to wait around for fickle producers to contact him. He’ll create his own perfect roles, thank you … Continue reading
James Spader Fade to Blacklist by Jay S. Jacobs James Spader has made something of a specialty in playing suave, sophisticated, seductive and morally bankrupt men. As such, he may have found his alpha character in master-criminal Raymond “Red” Reddington in NBC’s new hit series The Blacklist. Red is a super-criminal, the top of the FBI’s … Continue reading
Sandra Bullock, Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman & Jonás Cuarón – Defying and Defining Gravity by Jay S. Jacobs Even before she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Blind Side in 2010, Sandra Bullock was happy to take chances when taking on a role. However, never in her long and varied career has she gotten … Continue reading
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