Opening wide this weekend after a week exclusively on IMAX screens, EPIC starts with a speedily-edited summary of Presley's early career, his detractors who condemned the moves of his gyrating pelvis, his military service, his movie career, etc.
Admitting that Casablanca is one of your favorite movies is sort of embarrassing. It's too obvious and mainstream a choice, too cliched an emblem of the “silver screen” for a connoisseur of cinema.
“Death cannot stop true love,” says Westley. “All it can do is delay it for a while.”
A Private Life (or Vie Privée in its native tongue) shifts into a low-key Hitchcockian mystery with a sly edge of stinging, acerbic comedy.
Slated for 7 p.m. on Saturday, January 24 is The Fire Brigade, a 1926 MGM epic about firefighters and firefighting.
The strange, sad episode is dramatized in Dead Man’s Wire by Gus Van Sant, from a script by Austin Kolodney.
“May you live in interesting times” is supposedly an ancient Chinese curse. Well, 2025 has unquestionably been an interesting year. A curse that may be in real life, but this was also an interesting year in movies, and that’s less accursed. So, let’s get ’25, and the first quarter of the 21st century, in the rear view with that traditional annual movie-critic indulgence, the Top 10 List. Here are the 10 movies that...
Song Sung Blue It would be hard, for me at least, not to like Song Sung Blue, a jukebox musical about love and family set against the backdrop of working-class show business. It’s based on the true story of Mike and Claire Sardina, small-potatoes entertainers who launched a Neil Diamond tribute act together they called Lightning & Thunder in Milwaukee in the ’90s. Charismatic performers, they built their own regional following, eventually packing houses, playing...
The Marty in Marty Supreme is Marty Mauser, a Lower East Side kid in the early ’50s. The supremacy in question is at – of all things – table tennis, or ping-pong. He is already an insolently prodigal talent at the sport, with designs on becoming a world champ. Marty himself wouldn’t limit his supremacy merely to table tennis; he’s already intolerably cocksure about his ability to do pretty much anything he wants. Even though he could,...
It may leave you with an appetite for crabs.
To the ever-lengthening list of things that make me feel old may be added the fact that The 40-Year-Old Virgin is observing its 20th anniversary.
Our editorial staff picks for the best places to enjoy an activity away from home.
