If you haven’t had a chance to catch up with the action spectacular “RRR” (Rise, Roar, Revolt”) from Indian director S.S. Rajamouli yet, you are late to the party my friend. Even busy actor Jessica Chastain carved out three hours plus from her schedule to experience what all the fuss … [Read More]
Martin Scorsese interviewed Steven Spielberg last week after a screening of “The Fabelmans,” Spielberg’s autobiographical story of his journey to become a director. The historical and rare dialogue, which was as entertaining and fascinating as anticipated, took place last week at the DGA Theater in Manhattan. Video by: Rinaldo Caballero … [Read More]
Brad Pitt turned up at the AMC Lincoln Square last week to promote his new film, “Babylon,” a 188-minute epic written and directed by Damien Chazelle set in 1920s Hollywood. To say the excitement level to see the megastar was at a fever pitch would be an understatement. Seemingly unaware … [Read More]
“This is a 27-year labor of love,” Tyler Perry told a New York audience before a special screening of his new period drama, A Jazzman’s Blues, Thursday evening at the Paris Theater. The event was hosted by Netflix, which is now streaming. Perry had just come from doing 14 hours … [Read More]
By Paula Schwartz In “The Woman King,” Viola Davis stars as the fierce leader of the Agojie, an all-female warrior troop who protected the West African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s. Portrayed in the film as the tribe’s cast-offs and disenfranchised, they forswear marriage and motherhood to focus on … [Read More]
Academy Award winning director Barry Levinson’s (“Rain Man”) newest film, HBO’s “The Survivor,” premiered to a hushed crowd Monday evening at Temple Emanu-El, the limestone Romanesque synagogue on 65th Street and Fifth Avenue. Ben Foster stars in the true-life story of Harry Haft, a Polish Jew who survived Auschwitz boxing … [Read More]
Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike star as a couple trying to mend a marriage that is unraveling in “State of the Union,” directed by Stephen Frears (“A Very English Scandal,” “Philomena,” “My Beautiful Laundrette”) and written by Nick Hornby (“High Fidelity,” “An Education,” “Juliet, Naked”). “State of the Union” takes … [Read More]
Teenage heart throb Zac Efron plays the diabolical Ted Bundy in the Netflix film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” which premiered Thursday evening at the Tribeca Film Festival. Efron acquits himself well in a part that must have been excruciating to inhabit; he plays a psychopath who murdered women … [Read More]
Steven Coogan and John C. Reilly play to perfection Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in “Stan & Ollie,” a heartbreak of a movie set in the iconic comic duo’s twilight years. The Sony Classics film was celebrated Monday evening with a private screening at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center … [Read More]
Glenn Close’s long and illustrious career was honored by the Museum of the Moving Image Monday evening at their annual gala tribute in New York City. Featured speakers who introduced clips from some of her film roles — there have been more than 80 —were Ethan Hawke, Christian Slater, Bob … [Read More]
“The Rider,” a modern-day Western starring non-professional actors, won best feature film, and Ethan Hawke took home the best actor prize for “First Reformed” at the Gotham Awards. The Gotham Independent Film Awards, which were presented Monday evening at Cipriani Wall Street, officially kick off the Oscar season and are … [Read More]
Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne turned up recently at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in midtown to promote their new comedy, Instant Family, in which they play clueless white-bread adoptive parents of a trio of Hispanic-American siblings. The stars were joined by the director and co-writer Sean Anders, fellow cast members … [Read More]