Movies

"I've never had a good man," Ava Gardner told Rex Reed in 1967 Look at her, Ava Gardner. If you’ve seen this picture even once, it likely hangs on in your memory. It’s from 1945, the year of her marriage to Artie Shaw, who

We'll always miss Jonathan Demme, but his great concert film lives on  “No rock moves or poses,” wrote David Byrne of the founding principles of  Talking Heads when the band set out in 1975, “no pomp or drama, no rock hair, no rock lights, no rehearsed stage patter.

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,