NEW YORK—Back when telegrams were the emails of their day, playwright Moss Hart may have been the first to observe, “If you’ve got a message, call Western Union.” Whether Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn ever echoed […]
NEW YORK—“The Father” (Sony Classics) has nothing new to say about the challenges of dementia. Yet, in adapting his play with co-screenwriter Christopher Hampton, director Florian Zeller does succeed in presenting the difficulties resulting from […]
NEW YORK—The most entertaining Stone Age family since the Flintstones returns to the big screen in “The Croods: A New Age” (Universal), a delightful animated comedy suitable for almost all ages. This follow-up to the […]
NEW YORK—The interest high-ranking officials in the Third Reich showed in collecting valuable art — more often by foul means than fair — has proved a rich source of cinematic material in recent years. The […]
NEW YORK—Roald Dahl’s eponymous 1983 novel, first brought to the big screen in a 1990 film helmed by Nicolas Roeg, gets a spirited second adaptation with “The Witches” (HBO Max). Problematic elements are mostly absent […]
NEW YORK—”The family that prays together stays together.” Although he popularized rather than originated that pithy saying, the sentence aptly sums up the message of Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton (1909-1992), who advocated it both […]
NEW YORK—The key to any good film biography of a scientist is found in the montages that show the discovery or invention that gained the subject fame. On that score, “Radioactive” (Amazon), the story of […]
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