THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (2016) Starring Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Edgar Ramirez, Allison Janney, Lisa Kudrow, Laura Prepon, Darren Goldstein, Cleta E. Ellington, Lana Young, Rachel Christopher, Fernando Medina, Gregory Morley, Mac Tavares, John Norris, Nathan Shapiro, Tamiel Paynes and Peter Mayer-Klepchick. Screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson. Directed … Continue reading
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What Happened, Miss Simone? (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
WHAT HAPPENED MISS SIMONE? (2016) Featuring Lisa Simone Kelly, Roger Nupie, Al Shackman, George Wein, Stanley Crouch, Dick Gregory, Ilyasah Shabazz, Ambassador Shabazz, Gerrit De Bruin and archival footage of Nina Simone. Screenplay by Liz Garbus. Directed by Liz Garbus. Distributed by Netflix. 92 minutes. Rated PG-13. Jazz chanteuse Nina Simone always somehow felt too … Continue reading
Sully (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
SULLY (2016) Starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Autumn Reeser, Holt McCallany, Mike O’Malley, Jamey Sheridan, Valerie Mahaffey, Delphi Harrington, Ahmed Lucan, Jerry Ferrara, Blake Jones, Ann Cusack, Molly Hagan, Max Adler, Jeffrey Nordling, Michael Rapaport and Katie Couric. Screenplay by Todd Komarnicki. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. … Continue reading
Styx – Live at the Orleans Theater Las Vegas (A PopEntertainment.com Music Video Review)
STYX – LIVE AT THE ORLEANS ARENA LAS VEGAS (2016) Featuring Tommy Shaw, James “JT” Young, Lawrence Gowan, Todd Sucherman, Ricky Phillips and Chuck Panozzo. Directed by Larry Jordan. Distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment. 132 minutes. Not Rated. It’s all too easy to forget, thirty-some years after Styx first officially broke up at the height … Continue reading
The Jungle Book (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
THE JUNGLE BOOK (2016) Starring Neel Sethi and the voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Walken, Garry Shandling, Brighton Rose, Emjay Anthony, Max Favreau, Chloe Hechter, Asher Blinkoff, Knox Gagnon, Sara Arrington, Russell Peters, Sam Raimi, Madeline Favreau and Jon Favreau. Screenplay by Justin Marks. Directed … Continue reading
Master Bassist Robert Miller Makes Project Grand Slam His Mission
Master Bassist Robert Miller Makes Project Grand Slam His Mission by Brad Balfour With his dark shades and black/white garb on stage, master bassist Robert Miller seems like a cool cat out of a 1950s Hollywood casting of a jazz musician. But he’s much more than that. The 60-ish player is leader of Robert Miller’s … Continue reading
Suicide Squad (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
SUICIDE SQUAD (2016) Starring Will Smith, Viola Davis, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adam Beach, Karen Fukuhara, Aidan Devine, David Harbour, Ben Affleck and Ezra Miller. Screenplay by David Ayer. Directed by David Ayer. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. 123 minutes. Rated PG-13. Suicide Squad is the state … Continue reading
Sing Street (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
SING STREET (2015) Starring Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Mark McKenna, Kelly Thornton, Ian Kenny, Ben Carolan, Percy Chamburuka, Karl Rice, Conor Hamilton, Don Wycherley and Lydia McGuinness. Screenplay by John Carney. Directed by John Carney. Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 105 minutes. Rated PG-13. Irish former musician turned … Continue reading
Tommy Chong – Getting America Stoned Again
Tommy Chong Getting America Stoned Again by Jay S. Jacobs The year is 2016. The world is changing in ways that people could have never imagined. A black man in President of the United States. Gay marriage is the law of the land. England has left the European Union. A reality TV personality with a … Continue reading
Goo Goo Dolls – Thinking Outside of the Boxes
Goo Goo Dolls Thinking Outside of the Boxes by Jay S. Jacobs It’s hard to believe that Goo Goo Dolls’ self-titled debut album came out 30 years ago. (Heads up, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.) Of course, back then they were a scrappy punk band in the vein of the Replacements on the Metal … Continue reading