Get sad as good people spiral in Marriage Story

Marriage Story is as sad a movie as I’ll see during this stay-at-home, I’m quite certain during and right after watching it on Netflix with my dear wife Karen, blotting my eyes with a tissue and knowing in my heart that it deserved the praise and honors of this year’s award shows. Oh, how these…

Let Mark Wahlberg run around Boston as Spenser and it will be entertaining

The private eye Spenser has been running around the American crime consciousness via the novels by Robert B. Parker and then the Tv show starring Robert Ulrich for just shy of a halfhearted-century. Now Netflix has delivered a new chapter brimming with the bravado of Mark Wahlberg as our title investigator. Directed by Peter Berg…

Falling Inn Love shows off the charms of New Zealand

Picture if you will a hard-working woman totally unsatisfied with her job. Her boyfriend. Her life, really. Online she stumbles upon a contest where the top prize is an inn tucked into the hills of New Zealand. (I’d think it was some sort of a scam, but, you know, the movies …) Anyway, she wins,…

Scorsese, De Niro say so much and so little in The Irishman

It’s quite obvious that director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro care so much about The Irishman. The pair of American legends pour their talents, mystique, credibility and reputation into this true mob tale of Frank Sheeran, a veteran attempting to find his way back into home country life as a truck driver when…

Will you stick around with Adam and Jennifer to solve this Murder Mystery?

There are Jennifer Anniston fans, plenty still, I’ll assume in this Friends anniversary year. There are Adam Sandler fans, too, I’ll venture. Because, well … The Wedding Singer still gets me to stop and chuckle, you know? Will there be fans of Jennifer and Adam trying their chemistry together? Oh, wait. In 2011, they had…

I’m with Bruce Springsteen at the grown up stage, yup

There are many things that Bruce Springsteen cops to up there on the Broadway stage. With great good humor and the confidence of man who at last has nothing to lose, the 69-year-old rocker tells maybe not all but loads on stage with just his voice, a guitar and a keyboard there at New York…

A sweet little film about the end of film, Kodachrome makes the most of what develops

The demise of film meant a lot of things to a lot of people. We’re talking about the stuff that you used to put into cameras before the advent of the digital age. When the exposures were done, you’d wind it back into its little canister and either send it away or drive it to…

You can’t fix silly, not even on NetFlix

I thought I’d sworn off anything and everything that boasted of Adam Devine in a major role, what after that major turkey he’d turned in with Zac Efron as brothers out of control in the is-that-really-a-comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. I know, my fault for watching that on Blu-Ray. But then I had…