Director John Stalberg, Jr. wanted to shoot the sequel to his 2023 hit “Muzzle” in Los Angeles. Badly. The saga is set in the City of Angels, and Stalberg craved the city’s authentic spirit. He ended up filming most of “Muzzle: City of Wolves” in South Africa instead. The reasons why TV shows and films […]
Jack Lopate is about to get married, and all he can think about his cheating on his fiancée. His buddy Miles Raymond is too buried in his own misery to stop him. So goes “Sideways,” the Oscar-nominated dramedy that earned five Oscar nominations in 2004, winning for Best Adapted Screenplay (Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor). The film […]
Breaking News: A profitable movie franchise is coming back for another installment. That’s not a Dog Bites Man story. It’s a Dog Sees a Fire Hydrant and Gives It a Sniff story. Hollywood can’t stop bringing back old franchises, no matter how long they’ve been in cold storage. To wit: A “Thing” sequel is in […]
David Freyne’s “Eternity” is a schmaltzy fantasy/love story, in a year that already subjected filmgoers to “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.” Thirty-five years later, “Ghost” (1990) is still the king of these types of movies. When we meet Larry (Barry Primus) and Joan (Betty Buckley), they are elderly and driving to a gender reveal party. […]
Osgood Perkins’ “Keeper” begins with a great, bone-chilling sequence: a montage of women, all existing at different moments in time, on a date with an unseen man that is about to go very badly. The clothes and hairstyles suggest different eras, but these vignettes all end the same. A blood-freezing close-up of each woman, their […]
Johnny Carson never got his hands dirty in the late-night TV wars. He didn’t have to. Carson reigned supreme for 30 years. His competitors could only scramble for second-place status. Some, like Chevy Chase, lasted just six weeks. The Leno-Letterman wars, though, were another matter. The talk show titans’ duel proved so dramatic that they […]
I’ve never encountered a film flopping with a louder, more surprising thud than Brian De Palma’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (1990). Film buffs can usually detect these things coming, as the months leading up to release can often give red flags, leaked word of mouth or tell-tale trailers that the film in question is […]
Remember the late-night TV wars? Rivers. Miller. Johnson. Chase. Hall. Sajak. Thicke. Sykes. Many tried to walk in Johnny Carson’s shoes. Few succeeded. Some, like Chevy Chase, called it quits after six brutal weeks. Others, like Arsenio Hall, burned brightly before calling it a late-night career. Still, the format endured for decades with a few […]
Somali migrants should go home to fix up their own country, President Donald Trump told his cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “They come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch” about Americans and America, he said, adding: “We don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from […]
President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, accompanied by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday to promote Trump’s plan for peace in Ukraine. The Trump plan, originally including 28 distinct points, has already been discussed with Ukrainian and European officials and reportedly whittled down to 20 action […]
