Punk icon Billy Idol olays the first ever live concert in front of the Hoover Dam, performing two unique sets in front of only 250 fans.
Billy Joel's famed 1990 concert performance is now available in a newly re-edited 4k print with Dolby ATMOS® audio. The new version includes a never-before-released performance of “Uptown Girl,” interviews with Billy Joel, and behind-the-scenes footage from the event’s production.
Was it negative press accrued by the director’s fizzled attempt to renew interest in high resolution technology or the so-so box office performance by this year’s other high profile war epic, Hacksaw Ridge, that led to Sony’s decision not to screen Ang Lee’s much-hyped adaptation of Ben Fountain’s novel for …
A showcase for the talent-impaired Adam Sandler (co-written by him), in the impossible part of the idiot son of a hotel magnate, obligated to repeat grades one through twelve (two weeks apiece) if he hopes to inherit the family business. He -- it -- they -- are lazy and unimaginative …
A Tommy O'Haver Trifle, truthfully self-described. Good-looking, colorful, bright romantic comedy about the lust of a homosexual photographer for his newly discovered straight model -- Pygaylion, if you will, and his Gaylatea. The gas runs out before the end, even with long stretches of low-speed coasting. Sean P. Hayes, a …
Boot-camp comedy, through which Neil Simon glides and dances, landing the occasional light jab of self-pitying wit ("It was hard to believe that these guys had mothers and fathers who were worried about them"). The script, adapted by Simon from his original stage play, is purportedly autobiographical, though it hardly …
A dog and his boy, separated when the latter's father, a barefooted placekicker, gets traded from Denver to Green Bay. Matthew Robbins wants to make a kiddie movie and be hip at the same time: ham acting, cute canine, impossible feats, but also suburban satire, sick jokes, sexual innuendo, and …
A strange Bird indeed: two and a half hours of total commercial hopelessness, commercial suicide even, commercial self-sacrifice (to put the noblest face on it), directed, but not appeared in, by perhaps the single biggest box-office star of the prior two decades. Clint Eastwood, co-opted by the country-western crowd for …
An animated movie about troubled teens, and quite possibly for them as well, because it’s so very like them: alternately sweet and scary, tender and violent, dense and scattered, and oh yes, childlike and adult. (It sure ain’t for kiddies; the people are cartoony animals — dog cops, trash-picker mice, …
Even filmmakers of the status of Nichols and May (director Mike, writer Elaine) follow the crowd and go for inspiration to the French, and they do not go for something recherché: the low-brow gender-bender farce La Cage aux Folles. The major makeover: in order to "explain" why an engaged couple …
Even filmmakers of the status of Nichols and May (director Mike, writer Elaine) follow the crowd and go for inspiration to the French, and they do not go for something recherché: the low-brow gender-bender farce La Cage aux Folles. The major makeover: in order to "explain" why an engaged couple …
Michael Keaton plays Riggan, a guy who used to be a box-office superstar, in part because he played Birdman in three films. (Art improving on life?) Now Riggan (like Keaton) is starring in much artier fare. Sadly, everything is going wrong, and he is routinely haunted by his feathery, famous …