By Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press It’s a tale as old as time — or at least, a tale Hollywood loves to tell again and again: Body-swapping. It’s magical. It’s comical. It carries […]
‘Freakier Friday’ a worthy sequel
Neeson is no Nielsen in ‘Gun’
By Jake Coyle Associated Press Some say directing is 90% casting. In the case of Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin, it was more like 110%. The choice of Nielsen for “Police […]
7-year-old stars in ‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’
By Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press Film Writer “Are we racists?” That’s the blunt question posed by Bobo, a white girl living on a farm in Africa, to her horrified (and defensive) mother. […]
‘Jurassic World’ lifts franchise
By Mark Kennedy AP Entertaiment Writer If you’ve lately been feeling that the “Jurassic Park” franchise has jumped an even more ancient creature — the shark — hold off any thoughts of […]
Uma, Charlize lead ‘Old Guard 2’
By Lindsey Bahr AP Film Writer About 80 minutes into “The Old Guard 2,” I found myself wondering how the filmmakers were going to wrap things up. There were a lot of […]
Eva is disarming in ‘Sorry Baby’
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer The first thing to love about writer-director-star Eva Victor’s extraordinary debut “Sorry, Baby” is how she, as the young professor Agnes, tries, and fails, to hide […]
Zombies alive ’28 Years Later’
By Alex Veiga AP Film Writer Most movies are lucky to predict one thing. Danny Boyle’s 2002 dystopian thriller “28 Days Later” managed to be on the cutting edge of two trends, […]
‘F1’ is a perfect vehicle for Brad
By Jake Coyle/ AP Film Writer The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout in Joseph Kosinski’s “F1,” a fine-tuned machine of a movie that, in its most riveting […]
It’s 1958 at the Gem Theatre
By Thom de Martino Orange County Tribune Nostalgia’s a hell of a drug. Has anyone else noticed the 20-year cycle of it? In the late 80’s it was a resurgence of 60’s […]
‘Dangerous’ scarier than sharks
By Mark Kennedy AP Entertainment Writer As if a movie about sharks wasn’t scary enough, the filmmakers behind “Dangerous Animals” have upped the screams by adding what every thriller needs — a […]
