Emmy-winning choreographer Peggy Holmes has transitioned to animation in recent years, directing one “Little Mermaid” and two “Tinker Bell” films for Disney. Her latest feature is “Luck”, from Skydance Animation, premiering August 5th on AppleTV+. Holmes previews “Luck” and recalls her work on an iconic scene with Michelle Pfeiffer in “The Fabulous Baker Boys”. ———————– […]
Five years after the first “Maleficent” shook-up the classic “Sleeping Beauty” story, Angelina Jolie’s horned villain is back. Well, sort of. Jolie’s character doesn’t really have much of a presence in her own sequel. That’s just one of the many problems with “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”. As was the case last time, Maleficent is somewhat […]
The Bernie Madoff story has already been made into several movies. There was the 2010 documentary “Chasing Madoff”. Last year, Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner played Bernie and his wife Ruth in ABC’s two-night miniseries “Madoff”. Now, Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer tackle the Madoff roles in HBO’s “The Wizard of Lies”. De Niro […]