By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer “Freud`s Last Session,” which expands in theaters this weekend, also comes from the stage and, like “The Two Popes,” centers on the tete-a-tete of intellectual opposites. Mark […]
Science vs. faith in ‘Freud’
Superhero movies won’t fly?
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) –– Eight years ago, Steven Spielberg predicted that the superhero movie would one day go “the way of the Western.” Spielberg’s comments caused a […]
‘Wonka’ in a whimsical return
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer The original 1971 “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” may have been a delicious dream, lined with trees of gumballs and fields of lollipops. But never has there been […]
‘Priscilla’ a romance with Elvis
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early ’60s. […]
‘White Men’ remake grounded
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer Nineties nostalgia has extended now to 1992’s “White Men Can’t Jump” returning to the blacktop courts where Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson hustled and Rosie Perez studied […]
A likable Michael J. Fox in ‘Still’
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer I’ve always liked Michael J. Fox and always will. I suspect most people feel the same way. That’s surely partly because, as Marty McFly in “Back to […]
Unique baddie in “Alice, Darling”
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer Emotional abuse rarely gets the subtle, sensitive treatment on screen as it does in Mary Nighy’s thoughtful if uneven drama “Alice, Darling,” starring Anna Kendrick. At first, […]
“Mouse House” lost its way?
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Abigail E. Disney has been critical of the company that bears her name before. But for the first time, Disney, the granddaughter of […]
“Bullet Train” crashes, not Pitt
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer Aboard the speeding locomotive of “Bullet Train” ride at least five assassins, one venomous reptile (a snake on the train), countless glib Guy Ritchie-esque slo-mo action sequences, […]
Minions run wild in “Rise of Gru”
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer For a not small segment of the audience for “Minions: Rise of Gru,” only one thing really needs to be said. The Minions are in it. That’s […]
