By Thom de Martino/Orange County Tribune What would you sacrifice to gain your deepest wish? Middle-aged insurance underwriter and baseball superfan Joe Boyd (William Jordan) knows – his will only […]
‘Damn Yankees’ is darn good
‘Black Bag’ a sleek spy thriller
By Jack Coyle AP Film Writer If you’re hosting a dinner for half a dozen British intelligence agents with the aim of ferreting out a mole, what should you cook? For George […]
The dark world of ‘Nether’
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Unfettered, in a world without consequences, how dark might the games we play become? How corrupted our imaginations? Director Tom Amen and the Golden West College Mainstage […]
Tiny type but big flavor at Rudy’s
By John Borack/Orange County Tribune My former place of employment (for more than 25 years) was in West Garden Grove, so I was constantly searching for new places to dine in […]
‘Good Night’ returns as a play
By Mark Kennedy/AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — George Clooney made waves in July when he called on Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, citing diminished capacity. For […]
‘Last Breath’ is deeply scary
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer A routine deep-sea diving mission in the North Sea goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface in the new […]
‘The Gorge’ is deeply ridiculous
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer In the movies, we’ve had green valleys, haunted hills and grand canyons. But only now has the time arrived for a long-overshadowed land formation. “The Gorge,” a […]
‘Old Guy’ stylish, misses target
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer A boomer hit man is given a nightmare final assignment to train his own Gen Z replacement in Simon West’s lifeless action-comedy “Old Guy.” Christoph Waltz’s Danny […]
Renee’s lovable in ‘Mad About’
By Jocelyn NoveckAP National Writer It is a truth universally acknowledged, as Bridget Jones herself might write in her diary, that at the end of any Bridget Jones movie, our heroine has […]
‘Capt. America’ is no Marvel
By Mark Kennedy/AP Entertainment Writer Celebrate Valentine’s Day this year with “Captain America: Brave New World,” a highly processed, empty calorie, regret-later candy of a movie. We’re nearing the end of Phase […]
