In just a couple of years, Kevin Hart has gone from relatively unknown comedian to Hollywood heavyweight. Even though he’s starred in blockbuster comedies “Ride Along” and “Think Like a Man”, Hart still loves doing stand-up, and he wanted to make his latest tour, “Kevin Hart: What Now?”, his biggest and boldest one yet. So […]

Summer 2015 at the Movies will be remembered for many things: dino domination, Minion mayhem, sensational stunts, and a torrential Tweet. Here are the Best of the Best and a few other honorees from the past four months of film: Best Supporting Actor: Jason Segel (“The End of the Tour”) Best Supporting Actress: Rachel McAdams […]

It’s one of the wackiest movie rollercoaster stories of the decade. The Grace Kelly biopic “Grace of Monaco”, starring Nicole Kidman as the Academy Award-winning movie star who became royalty when she married Monaco’s Prince Rainier (Tim Roth), was originally supposed to open in November 2013 as a prime Awards Season contender. One of Director […]

This year’s Best Animated Feature race is packed with excitement. For the first time in history, Pixar will be facing-off against itself. The lineup of contenders also includes sequels, a spin-off, and both TV and comic strip adaptations. And since, by the looks of it, there won’t be as many qualifying entries as in past […]

The Best Actress competition for the upcoming Awards Season is already taking shape, with The Weinstein Company getting the campaigning off to an early start, pushing Helen Mirren for her performance in the Spring release “Woman in Gold”. Going for her 20th career Oscar nomination, fellow Hollywood royalty member Meryl Streep is receiving some buzz […]

Can this year’s Best Actor competition top the unpredictable and unforgettable race of last Awards Season? Qualifying begins September 18 (unless we’re counting Jake Gyllenhaal in “Southpaw”) and continues practically every week until the end of the year. Out of this list they’ll be great performances, solid contenders, longshot hopefuls and, in the end, plenty […]

There may be a few more before Labor Day arrives, but none worse than these. Here’s a breakdown of the five biggest Summer 2015 Box Office bombs: 1.) “Ted 2” – If you had told me that this sequel to the 2012 comedy giant would make less than 40% of the original’s domestic gross, I […]

I’m just back from a mini-vacation to beautiful Newport, Rhode Island. A few weeks ago I saw Woody Allen’s latest film – the mystery romance “Irrational Man” (expanding to nearly 1,000 theaters this weekend), which is based and was mostly shot in Newport. So while there this week I wanted to try to locate the […]

Before “Kinky Boots” became the Broadway musical sensation, it was a British film starring Joel Edgerton (“The Great Gatsby”) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”). The comedy about a shoe factory in financial trouble and its unexpected savior opened in the UK in 2005, wasn’t released in the US until 2006, and earned Ejiofor […]

The release of “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” marks the latest in a recent string of Tom Cruise success stories. Sure, his personal life has been a bit of a mess and under attack by the tabloid media for years, but, unlike others who have experienced career highs and lows, Cruise has been able to […]