A small business conference was my dear wife Karen’s assignment Thursday afternoon for the Syracuse Media Group, the company that was born from the big daily. As I was sharpening comments right here, Karen called. She suggested I drive downtown to the Oncenter and take a walk through the aisles. There were plenty of folks…
My Thursday blog task for the Syracuse New Times site for a few weeks now is to find news in the film world and Mark-snark about it. Yes, I can do that. But Tuesday, Bob Hoskins passed away at the age of 71. It was a little odd that the British native got his start…
By the end of “The Other Woman,” everybody in the theater cheers the way things shake down. Leslie Mann, Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton sure make a good team against the cad who decided he wanted them all at the same time. Mann is the star of this show, using the physical comedy skills that…
The Syracuse New Times unveiled its new page design style earlier this month. And editor Larry Dietrich decided he wanted me to take a different approach for my Thursday film blog to help punch up the page dedicated to the big screen. Goodbye weekend movie advances. Hello me commenting about things I find odd and…
The film studio bigwigs who released ‘Heaven Is for Real’ this particular weekend knew what they were doing. My dear wife Karen and I watched with appropriate wonder on Easter proper. Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly and Connor Corum are fabulous as Nebraska Todd Burpo, his wife and their smart 4-year-old. It’s a true story, which…
It worked as a longing baseball fan. It worked as a quirky golfer. Will Kevin Costner’s sports charm work as a crafty general manager in charge of the Cleveland Browns’ strategy in “Draft Day” is the question of the weekend. Costner gets help from Jennifer Gardner as his salary specialist in front of the hunting…
I am convinced in a big way. Save the lemurs. I didn’t know much about the furry primates before viewing the new IMAX documentary “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar.” But after 38 minutes of observing how the 60-million year history of this animal is in danger because its forest land habitat is shrinking on the fourth-largest…
The ninth installment of the Marvel Comics series comes charging into theaters this weekend. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” features our hero teaming with Black Widow to battle Russian villain Winter Soldier. In the streets of our nation’s capital, they fight for the right … to have a 10th installment in the future. And freedom.…
In Wes Anderson’s world of “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” there are more odd ducks flapping about than in the pond next to the nuclear power plant. You know the old saying about funny peculiar or funny ha-ha? In this strange and wonderful offering, Ralph Fiennes and Tony Revolori answer yes and yes. Fiennes’ expansive turn…
I know, the subject of Noah, the ark and all that water is not very funny. All it takes to get very serious about the Biblical tale all over again is to see the trailer featuring Russell Crowe as the ark-builder. Tense! And yet, as I ponder the epic cinematography to come in “Noah,” I…
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