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‘Race’ the story of Jesse Owens

The list of truly memorable movies about track and field is a short one, including “Chariots of Fire,” “Personal Best,” “Saint Ralph,” “Without Limits” and a handful of others. Ma...

DATE: Feb 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Zoolander 2’ doesn’t impress

For “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” the third installment of the franchise in 2002, a bounty of big-name celebrities, from Tom Cruise to Katie Couric to Danny DeVito to John Travolta to Gwyne...

DATE: Feb 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Don’t forget to bring your tissues to ‘The Choice’

Nobody, and I mean nobody, cranks out more romance-tragedy porn than Nicholas Sparks. Sparks writes the novels and Hollywood makes the movies, and just about every time out, you g...

DATE: Feb 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘The Revenant’ is unforgettable

If you love movies, don’t you dare wait to watch “The Revenant” on any screen you can hold in your hand. Get up. Stretch your legs. Go to the movies. Please. The enormo...

DATE: Jan 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Experimenter

Recently, we had “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” based on the 1971 psychological exercise in which 12 college students were randomly selected to play the role of guards and 12 were chosen ...

DATE: Dec 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: The Big Short

Impossible. Even with the benefit of 20-15 hindsight, it’s impossible to fathom exactly how the housing bubble of the 2000s was allowed to balloon to such gigantic proportions bef...

DATE: Dec 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Truth

It wouldn’t be accurate to say “Truth” is stranger than fiction because “Truth” is a fiction – a dramatization of the infamous and spectacularly flawed “60 Minutes II” report in 2004 about G...

DATE: Dec 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: The Last Witch Hunter

How did Nicolas Cage avoid this one? “The Last Witch Hunter” does not work as campy escapism or as a guilty pleasure or as one of those movies so unintentionally funny you have to...

DATE: Oct 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: The Visit

My heart sank about five minutes into “The Visit,” when it became clear the entire film was going to be yet another “found footage” movie, seen through the lenses of characters who keep the ...

DATE: Sep 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Fantastic Four

My favorite scene in the decidedly mediocre “Fantastic Four” comes late in the game, when Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, Sue Storm and the Thing meet with government and military officials in ...

DATE: Aug 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Pixels

We’re nearly an hour into “Pixels” before we get a good look at the arcade video game-inspired attackers that have invaded Earth and are gobbling up humans and famous landmarks alike. ...

DATE: Jul 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Self/Less

The ridiculousness in “Self/less” starts with the exaggerated “Noo Yawk” accent Ben Kingsley employs as a ruthless business tycoon who delights in humiliating young rivals even as he’s in th...

DATE: Jul 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming