(***) “Um… I think I’m getting a divorce.” Most future ex-husbands would confide that to friends, family or a therapist. But this lost-in-his-feelings middle-aged man tells an audience of comedy club patrons. Folks who came looking for a laugh. Actor turned filmmaker Bradley Cooper heads this com/rom/dra. His last ventures, A Star is Born and Maestro, were extremely […]
Marty Supreme
(***1/2) He’s reckless and ambitious. A loser who never gives up. Born poor but has rich man dreams. Dreams he’s desperate to fulfill. For Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), life on New York’s Lower East Side in the 1950s is a trap. He’s been looking for a way out of his low-income Jewish American community since […]
Miami Vacations Have Something for Everyone
Travel to Miami and you’ll find great places to eat, stay and play–no matter your tastes or age. The destination has something for everyone along with 80-degree winter weather. So, if shoveling four feet of snow and freezing North Pole-like temperatures are vexing you or you just need some time away, grab your suitcase and go. Restaurants […]
10 BEST FILMS 2025
These 10 best films floated to the top of the pack in 2025. All are Oscar® worthy on some level, in some category. Watch them in theaters or stream them and you’ll see for yourself. Hamnet (****) A woman in a forest has a lot to learn about life and forgiveness. Watching her metamorphosis is transfixing. It becomes […]
Hamnet — 2025 Toronto International Film Festival
(****) She and the forest are one. Some might call her a witch. But they’d be wrong. She’s more like a daughter of mother nature. Destined for love and tragedy of Shakesperean proportions. Something she could foretell: “The women in my family see things.” Sometimes she lays curled up at the base of a tree. […]
Wicked: For Good
(***1/2) “I’ve heard it said. That people come into our lives for a reason…” That poet lyric is from the song “For Good,” arguably the second most famous tune from the Broadway musical Wicked. The words hint at the theme of this final half of the Wicked duology, which has been magically created by screenwriters Winnie Holzman and Dana […]
The Running Man
(**) He’s running as fast as he can—in a film that’s going nowhere. There isn’t one “wow” moment in this entire remake of the tepid 1987 movie of the same name, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. Blame the writing, direction and production elements for the inability to make any of this footage truly exciting or visually […]
Sentimental Value — 2025 Toronto International Film Festival
(****) An American movie star asks, “Why didn’t you want to do the role?” The daughter of the director, an actress, responds, “I can’t work with him. My father is a very difficult person.” And so, it goes. A daddy/daughter relationship fraught with bad feelings and lots of history churns and churns. Absentee dads, and […]
Nuremberg — 2025 Toronto International Film Festival
(***) “The world needs to know what these men did.” That’s the thesis that drives The Allies who’d beaten Germany. The reason they form an International Military Tribunal and create the world’s first global trial, a reckoning that sought to hold the highest officers in the Nazi regime accountable for their atrocities. In mid 1945, […]
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere — 2025 New YorkFilm Festival
(***) “I don’t want to have to explain it.” That’s a demand many artists can understand. Not having to elaborate on their creativity, just expressing it is the quest. That’s also the central issue in this quiet chapter of Bruce Springsteen’s life. An epoch that trapped him in the worst of times emotionally, but not […]
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