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 […]

Last Saturday night, I had the chance to cover the World Premiere of the action comedy “Pixels” at the Regal E-Walk theater in New York City. A huge Pac-Man balloon was hung from the top of the theater, only strong ropes prevented it from eating-up all the power pellets (and people) below on a packed […]

With the Primetime Emmy nominations out this week, I’m thinking that the Emmy committee should’ve added a new category this year: Best TV Series Finale. So many long-running shows/series came to an end over the last 12 months, including HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”, NBC’s “Parenthood”, Disney Channel’s animated hit “Phineas & Ferb”, and CBS’s “Two and […]