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As an experienced filmmaker, armchair military historian and a student of George Patton, I’ve come to confirm in my latest work on “The Shroud” that filmmaking is akin to orchestrating a military operation. It involves…
Hollywood’s youth obsession hits rom-coms the hardest. It explains why great rom-com pairings like Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have expiration dates. The stars too often age out of the genre. The industry still delivers…
The three comedians descending on Denver this weekend don’t look like misfits. Michael Loftus, Dave Landau and Joe DeVito seem like everyday Americans, the folks you’d see at Starbucks or on line at the bank.…
“Comedy is hard,” they say. Is performing as a comedic duo twice as hard? Here are the top 10 comedic film duos of all time: NOTE: Comic ensembles like Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael…
Netflix bet on expensive action romps to keep subscribers happy (and prevent many from leaving). Think films with big stars, bigger budgets and mass audience appeal. As with many things tied to Netflix, the streamer’s…
The list of people punished for sharing the “wrong” opinion on social media keeps growing. NASCAR just suspended driver Noah Gragson for “liking” a cruel meme tied to George Floyd, the black man whose 2020…
Wear a mask. Stay six feet apart. Remain home as much as possible. And don’t dare attend a church service. You can still protest so-called systemic racism in the streets, even if it means standing…
Disney should send James Gunn a cookie bouquet, stat. The writer/director gave the studio a springtime smash with “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” a film that lived up to the MCU hype with $…
Remember the ’80s? No, not the shoulder pads, leg warmers and films by Stallone and Schwarzenegger. We mean the decade when the Left defended artistic expression while some Moral Majority types stood against it. The…
No one can beat Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise’s super spy from the “Mission: Impossible” franchise. Maybe that’s why the saga’s newest villain isn’t a person at all. It’s an Artificial Intelligence algorithm, called The Entity,…