David Oyelowo, the British-Nigerian actor best know for his portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s “Selma,” turned up at a midtown Manhattan hotel last week to promote his new film, “A United Kingdom,” directed by Amma Asante. “A United Kingdom” is the real-life story of King Serese … [Read More]
Hidden Figures is about a trio of up-to-now unheralded African-American female mathematicians employed at NASA in the early days of the space program, couldn’t be timelier. Finally acknowledged are how these geniuses working under the onerous conditions of segregation and the bias against women and their ability to excel in science, … [Read More]
Donald Trump was up by 5:30 a.m. lashing out at Meryl Streep for negative comments she made about him at the Golden Globes Sunday night during her acceptance of the Cecil B. DeMille Award. The President-elect tweeted: Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me … [Read More]
“Hitman: Agent 47,” based on the popular video game, centers on an elite assassin, played by Rupert Friend (“Homeland), engineered to be the perfect killing machine. He’s emotionless, consistent, deadly. He’s known by the two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck, which means he’s a … [Read More]
Director James Ponsoldt’s new film “The End of the Tour” chronicles five days in 1996 when David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) interviewed famed “Infinite Jest” novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) for a (never-published) Rolling Stone magazine article. The interviews took place in the dead of winter at the novelist’s … [Read More]
Jeremy Renner stars as investigative journalist Gary Webb in the heart-pounding thriller “Kill the Messenger,” which chronicles his efforts to track down the link between drug dealers, contra rebels in Nicaragua and the C.I.A. in a series he wrote in the mid 90’s called “Dark Alliance.” When the articles … [Read More]
From the stage of Alice Tully Hall director Saturday night Paul Thomas Anderson pointed to the New York Film Festival logo that reads, “Film Lives Here,” and added, “It does here. My film is in 35mm cinematography.” “Inherent Vice,” the hotly awaited film adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon … [Read More]
“Whiplash,” the Sundance Award-winning film by Damien Chazelle that is screening at the New York Film Festival, lives up to rave reviews. The movie is about 19 year-old jazz drummer, Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller), whose ambition to achieve perfection – to become the next Buddy Rich – spirals into … [Read More]
Richard Gere, in his best role in years, plays a homeless man living on the merciless streets of New York in “Time Out of Mind,” which screened at the New York Film Festival. Gere plays George, a numbed out alcoholic brought low by booze and bad luck, … [Read More]
Terry Gilliam, the 73-year-old “Monty Python” star and founding member and veteran movie director, was in New York last week to promote his new wacky sci-fi epic, “The Zero Theorem.” Set in a candy-colored futuristic London, it stars Academy Award-winning actor Christoph Waltz as a reclusive and eccentric computer savant (Qohen … [Read More]
“Calvary” director John Michael McDonagh was once “incarcerated for accidentally killing a swan” according to the production notes Fox Searchlight publicists handed out at a press event for the film recently at the Crosby Hotel in SoHo. The director’s new bleak, comedy drama, which stars Brendan Gleeson as a … [Read More]
Woody Allen told journalists Friday at a press conference for his new rom-com “Magic in the Moonlight,” set in the 1920’s in the gorgeous South of France, that in life what you see is what you get. He doesn’t believe in a spiritual after life. At a press conference in a … [Read More]