Too late to be funny
It might seem surprising that with so many duds for every one hit, producers are still trying to make films out of television series. HBO moguls clearly had a point if they thought Entourage (the Mov ...
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A double weepie of flashbacks
Taking on the lead role in an adaptation of one of Nicholas Sparks’ unbearably saccharine, contrived and white, all-American love stories (Dear John, Safe Haven) is not an obvious launch pad to a succ ...
Ian McKellen shines above a meandering, unfocused drama about Sherlock Holmes
Joyce Glasser reviews Mr Holmes (June 19, 2015) For those who already think of Sherlock Holmes as a real person, and fans who would like to imagine him so, Bill Condon’s film, Mr Holmes, is a double-e ...
Mark Hartley’s documentary about Cannon Films is a nostalgic romp that could have been weird and wilder.
Readers who went to the movies on a regular basis in the 1980s will have seen, if only by accident, at least one film distributed by Cannon Films, a company founded in 1979 by two Israeli-born film-ob ...