Saturday, January 18, 2025

Movies

Box Office: Tom Cruise Poor “Jack Reacher” Sequel Opening Sets Star Back Four Years

MONDAY: The actual number for Tom Cruise was a little less than thought at $22,872,490. Tyler Perry exceeded his estimate, finishing at $28.5 million. SUNDAY:...

Box Office Scare: Tyler Perry’s Halloween Movie Tops Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher

Boo! As in "Boo! A Madea Halloween" topped Tom Cruise's return as Jack Reacher last night and kept the world's biggest box office star...

Gotham Awards Get it Right with 5 Cool Best Features Including Manchester, Moonlight and Paterson

The Gotham Awards are the first awards of the movie season, given in New York right after Thanksgiving. They're really for indie films, so...

Tom Cruise “Jack Reacher 2”: Reviews Are Not Good, Audiences May Never Go Back for Sequel

The movie is called "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back." But audiences from the original 2012 "Jack Reacher" may not go back for the sequel...

Michael Moore In Surprise “Movie” Called “Trumpland”: Hate Hillary? Vote for Her Anyway

"Michael Moore In Trumpland" is not a screed against Donald Trump. It turns out to be a passionate and very humorous reasoned appeal for...

Famed Writer Tom Wolfe Surprised to Learn “Bonfire of the Vanities” Is Coming Back as a MiniSeries

The great Tom Wolfe is now 85 years old, very much alive and kicking on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The highly influential writer and...

Box Office: Ben Affleck’s “Accountant” Makes $9Mil Plus Friday Night, “Birth of a Nation” Dies Some More

The box office Friday night tells a sad tale for "Birth of a Nation." The Sundance favorite, once tipped for Oscars, is dead again....

Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” Is A $50 Mil Mistake in 4D, Which is 2D Too Many

I love Ang Lee's movies. most of them, I really do, from "The Ice Storm" to "Sense and Sensibility" to "The Wedding Banquet," "Eat...