Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean (1990) – A Review
Suzanne Pleshette plays notorious business woman, real estate mogul and the woman dubbed ‘the Queen of Mean’ Leona Helmsley in a 1990 television movie. Based on the book of the...
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The Founder (2016) – A Review
Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) is a struggling salesman trying to make ends meet. He’s been dreaming of one big score that will turn his life around, but so far has...
Chaplin (1992) – A Review
It’s an expansive docudrama that explores the extraordinary life of film legend and icon Charlie Chaplin played by Robert Downey Jr. . The film covers seventy years of Chaplin’s life,...
Murrow (1986) – A Review
Daniel J. Travanti portrays legendary CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow in the 1986 HBO television movie Murrow. The film follows Murrow’s early days in radio in which he became the...
Love and Mercy (2014) – A Review
Love and Mercy Brian Wilson (Paul Dano) of the Beach Boys is creating some brilliant music in the 1960’s. After they have become one of the most popular bands of...
Star 80 (1983) – A Review
Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts in Star 80 Young Dorthy Stratten (Mariel Hemingway ) is the quintessential girl-next-door. She’s pretty, sweet and innocent. She never even had a real boyfriend....
Auto Focus (2002) – A Review
Maria Bello and Greg Kinnear in Auto Focus In the mid-1950’s Bob Crane was an extremely popular radio show host in Los Angeles. He was known as ‘The King of...
Lovelace (2013) – A Review
Amanda Seyfried in Lovelace Lovelace is structured in two halves. The first being a lighthearted glitzy romp showing porn icon Linda Lovelace’s (Amanda Seyfried) rise from the innocent girl-next-door into...
New Mini-Series About Ian Fleming – The Man Who Would Be Bond
A new television mini-series chronicles the early life of the author who created James Bond – Ian Fleming. In four installments the mini-series is said to recount Fleming’s WWII’s experiences...
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night (2012) – A Review
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night PBS had aired an episode of their American Masters series in mid-2012 and this particular episode I really wanted to see. I was disappointed...
Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace Film
I was reading the recent issue of Entertainment Weekly the other day and there was an interesting article inside – that’s the first time in a long time I’ve seen...
Hitchcock (2012) – A Review
Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcok In 1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho rattled the movie-going world out of its safe cinematic slumber. At the time no one seemed to understand why The...
