Reviews

Based on a 1816 short story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, this version stars Mackenzie Foy as Clare. At a Christmas ball, Clare goes into her godfather’s (Morgan Freeman) laboratory where he gives her a gift that her deceased mother left her. It’s a silver egg with a key to a magical place.  Clare is a brave, […]

First Man is just what it states.  It is the story of Neil Armstrong the astronaut, and introspective human rather than the larger experience of the first flight by men that reached the surface of the Moon.   Director, Damien Chazelle (La La Land) brings a Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) to the screen that is at times […]

It begins as Darlene Sweet, (Cynthia Erivo) a lounge singer pulls up to the El Royale in her four door Studebaker, some time in the seventies.  The prelude begins with the Beach Boys singing “26 Miles” ten years earlier on the juke box as a single man drives up to the hotel, takes a room […]

The Old Man and the Gun also has Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover and Tom Waits, among others, on board opposite one of the most influential stars in show business, known as the Sundance Kid. The very manageable running time leaves an ingratiated onlooker (probably most of the senior variety) wishing it could go on a little longer thanks […]

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga are terrific in this 4th version of A Star Is Born. Cooper , who directs and also co-wrote the film, stars as Jackson Maine, a boozy, popular rock n roller.  He’s got long straggly hair, a beard and a raspy, lazy voice that he wraps around a song and delivers just what his fans […]