Movies

Few things connect with audiences like a devoted dog and his owner.

Even the silly “Beethoven” franchise scores points on that front. What happens when that dog is comprised of …
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We missed you, Billy.

Comic actor Billy Crystal isn’t doing many movies these days, his string of smashes (“City Slickers”) and misfires (“Mr. Saturday Night”) in the rear view mirror.

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Hollywood is making progress, finally, on how it treats mentally challenged characters.

Wacky comedies like “The Dream Team,” about a group of mentally unstable patients, were once the norm. Now, …
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When I used to cover Miramax’s legacy in my film classes, I’d speak of Harvey Weinstein with genuine awe and admiration.

Lecturing on a section dealing with the 1990s independent …
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“Downhill” is like Methadone for your “Marriage Story” addiction.

The latter showed a relationship in its death throes. “Downhill,” the American remake of 2014’s “Force Majeure,” X-rays a middle-aged couple …
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Horror movies can take two very different path.

The first? Make the deaths so clever, so over the top that you don’t give a dang about the folks biting the …
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The first narrative film to capture the Weinstein era removes everything salacious about the subject.

“The Assistant” does more than that, though.

It bleaches out the characters, motivations, drama and …
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Let’s address the pink elephant in the room right away.

“Birds of Prey” isn’t the umpteenth woke-fest from La La Land. The superhero film doesn’t stop cold to lecture us …
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There’s more grisly goodness in “Mon Mon Mon Monsters!” than most horror films today.

The Taiwanese horror comedy is bold, original and bloody enough to satisfy most gore hounds. It’s …
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It’s strange that Harold Ramis’s “Groundhog Day” feels more like a ritual than a movie this time of year.

The 1993 comedy has built up such a huge fan-base …
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