With summer winding down and most of the major blockbusters out of the way, it seems like ‘The Wolverine,’ the latest entry in the ‘X-Men’ franchise, has somehow flown a little under the radar — which is a shame, considering it’s probably the best a …Read more
Last Friday saw the debut of ‘Red 2,’ the sequel to a bit of action-comedy fluff from 2010 starring several distinguished older actors wielding machine guns and looking amazing/ridiculous. The original ‘Red’ was enjoyable if not particularly memorab …Read more
With only a little over a month to go before Labor Day, what better way to take advantage of the remainder of summer than to catch up on some light reading? We all know that Hollywood loves to adapt best-selling novels in order to gain that built-in …Read more
My StageBuddy colleague wrote an excellent article yesterday about four things modern horror movies get wrong: they’re all about the kills, the villains are boring, they feature bland “actors,” and, most significantly, they’re just not scary. Fortun …Read more
In honor of ‘The Conjuring,’ which opens this Friday, here are director James Wan’s four previous films, ranked from worst to best: 4. Death Sentence (2007) This Kevin Bacon revenge thriller is over-long, over-violent, and a total snooze. Designed a …Read more
Writers on television shows have to be endlessly creative to sustain a series over several years, but one thing no writer is ever prepared for is the sudden death of one of their stars. The writers on ‘Glee’ are currently faced with that unthinkable …Read more
‘Glee’ star Cory Monteith, who played jock-turned-singer Finn Hudson, tragically passed away on Saturday afternoon. In his adult life, Monteith had been very open and honest about his struggle with drug addiction since the age of 13. Last April, he …Read more
When you think of summer, if you picture yourself sitting in a dark theater on a hot day, watching an exciting movie with a cold soda and a comically-large bucket of popcorn… If you imagine being swept up in the big-budget magic of Hollywood… I …Read more
RED 2 (premiering next weekend) stars Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren as octogenarians so good at kicking ass and taking names, it makes us young uns look old and feeble. (‘RED,’ in this case, stands for ‘Retired & …Read more
