Movies

With the weekend coming up, you may be wondering where to find the best filmed brawls…  Kind readers, may one ask if you plan to watch any campus brawls this weekend?   I’m only half-kidding. As an option, you might find a theater to watch a much more ramped-up presentation,

Ryan Gosling (and Emily Blunt) keep it super profesh in “The Fall Guy”. It’s not supposed to  be deep. Does anybody remember the 1980 film “The Stunt Man”?  It was little-seen, though It won Peter O’Toole an Oscar nomination and also got a nom for Richard Rush as

O.J. Simpson could have left a robust and positive legacy as one of America’s legendary sports heroes. And there’s no American hero like a sports hero. When he died this month of cancer, his painful story came to the most cheerless of endings. My experience of O.

If ever a show was a great fit for the West Side of L.A.—and I say this as a fellow denizen—it’s Steve Zaillian’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith crime classic, “The Talented Mr. Ripley,”  re-billed "Ripley". It probably isn’t a good idea,

Dalton:  Well, the owner’s havin’ a little trouble, I guess, and I’m…just here to clean it up. Charlie: That kinda sounds like the plot to a western.  This exchange between Jake Gyllenhaal’s Elwood Dalton character and his young protégé-to-be  Charlie—a wised-up,  African-American  lass who is

Yes, that’s the quite marvelous actor Dev Patel above, as we see him at a turning point early on in "Monkey Man.” Soon we learn his character Kid is mad as hell and he most certainly is not gonna take it anymore. It was also Patel's