Melissa McCarthy Shows Another Side of Her Talents with Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Jay S. Jacobs Melissa McCarthy is mostly known for playing broad comic roles, so it comes as a bit of a surprise that she decided to take on the dramatic real-life story of Lee Israel. Israel was a fairly popular … Continue reading
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (2018) Starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Jane Curtin, Ben Falcone, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Spinella, Gregory Korostishevsky, Christian Navarro, Pun Bandhu, Erik LaRay Harvey, Brandon Scott Jones, Shae D’lyn, Rosal Colon, Marc Evan Jackson, Marcella Lowery, Marcella Lowery, Tina Benko, Julie Ann Emery and Towne The Cat. … Continue reading
Halloween (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
HALLOWEEN (2018) Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Virginia Gardner, Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney, Jefferson Hall, Rhian Rees, Toby Huss, Haluk Bilginer, Dylan Arnold, Miles Robbins, Drew Scheid, Jibrail Nantambu, Michael Harrity, William Matthew Anderson, Diva Tyler, Brien Gregorie, Vince Mattis, Omar Dorsey and PJ Soles. Screenplay by Jeff Fradley … Continue reading
James Frecheville Plays Hardened Fighter Feeney Getting Revenge in Black 47
James Frecheville Plays Hardened Fighter Feeney Getting Revenge in Black 47 by Brad Balfour In the Irish film Black 47, times are not good. Thanks to Draconian laws imposed on the Irish people by their genocidal British occupiers, the potato famine that had hit Ireland in the mid-1840s depleted the starving populace of their main … Continue reading
Phil Collins – Barclays Center – Brooklyn, NY – October 14, 2018 (A PopEntertainment.com Concert Review)
Phil Collins – Barclays Center – Brooklyn, NY – October 14, 2018 After a fairly long layoff, Phil Collins proved you can’t hurry retirement. After re-emerging a couple of years ago during the opening night of the US Open in Queens NY and releasing a series of his classic albums complete with side-by-side before and … Continue reading
Ja Rule & Method Man and Redman – North Seventh – Philadelphia, PA – October 12, 2018 (A PopEntertainment.com Concert Photo Album)
Ja Rule & Method Man and Redman – North Seventh – Philadelphia, PA – October 12, 2018 Click on thumbnails to see full-sized pictures! Photos by Chris Sanchez-Paralta © 2018 Continue reading
First Man (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
FIRST MAN (2018) Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Pablo Schreiber, Christopher Abbott, Ciarán Hinds, Ethan Embry, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke, Corey Stoll, Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Lukas Haas, Cory Michael Smith, Brian d’Arcy James, Brady Smith, Philip Boyd, Olivia Hamilton, Pablo Schreiber, Shea Whigham, Ethan Embry and Kris Swanberg. Screenplay by Josh Singer. Directed by … Continue reading
The Old Man and the Gun (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN (2018) Starring Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter, Ari Elizabeth Johnson, Teagan Johnson, Gene Jones, John David Washington, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Barlow Jacobs, Augustine Frizzell, Jennifer Joplin, Lisa DeRoberts, Carter Bratton, Leah Roberts, Alphaeus Green Jr., Keith Carradine and Elisabeth Moss. Screenplay by … Continue reading
Ken Sharp – Beauty in the Backseat (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
Ken Sharp – Beauty in the Backseat (Jet Fighter) Power Pop Heroes is not just the name of rock journalist and musician Ken Sharp’s recent multi-volume book series – an oral history of the critically-beloved musical style interviewing some of its biggest stars – it also is an accurate description of Sharp and his band. … Continue reading
Troye Sivan & Kim Petras – Tower Theater – Upper Darby, PA – October 6, 2018 (A PopEntertainment.com Concert Review)
Troye Sivan & Kim Petras – Tower Theater – Upper Darby, PA – October 6, 2018 This past weekend, Australian singer Troye Sivan brought his “Bloom Tour” to the Tower Theater in Upper Darby. The show didn’t sell out, but the audience was super loud and excited to see Troye and his opening acts, Leland … Continue reading