The fascinating documentary THE BOYS details the lives of famed songwriting duo The Sherman Brothers. Suffice to say that everything in this family was not a spoonful of sugar! I was surprised by the depth of emotion and division evoked by the film. It's an intimacy that owes a lot to the documentary's co-directors, the actual sons of the two Sherman brothers, Gregory V. Sherman and Jeff Sherman. I went in expecting some behind the scenes fluff about one of Disney's most prol

Haunting and hypnotic, EXIT 8 is a twisty, unforgiving puzzle that will have you looking for clues with the same passion as its characters. We meet The Lost Man (Kazunari Ninomiya) as he boards the Japanese underground subway. His ride is uneventful except for a strange interaction he observes between a businessman and a young mother trying to comfort her crying child. He's also on a call with his girlfriend that keeps getting interrupted. As he begins his way out of the subw

55 years ago, Gene Roddenberry, the creator of "Star Trek" wrote the screenplay for an MGM sexploitation comedy/mystery. Roddenberry may have been out of work, but I would have never guessed he wrote this taboo breaking, goofy, sexy comedy. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW stars Rock Hudson (a long way from Doris Day and "Pillow Talk" here) as high school football coach Tiger. Whenever Tiger turns on that red neon TESTING sign above his locked door, he's supposed to be testing stud

While it might not hit the highs of his "The Haunting of Hill House" or "The Fall of the House of Usher", Mike Flanagan's THE MIDNIGHT CLUB still delivers occasional thrills & chills. Spread over ten episodes (probably two or three too many from a story telling standpoint) the story structure is clever. We meet Ilonka (Iman Benson) just as she's about to enter college. After receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, she instead travels to Brightcliffe, a strange and mystery lade

Have you ever watched an "Airport" movie and wished the cast would get eaten by sharks? Your dream just came true with DEEP WATER, a disaster movie hybrid with some bloody great action but waterlogged special effects. The cast of characters is straight out of a 1970's Airport sequel. Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) is Ben, the committed First Officer trying to get one last round-trip done so he can get home to his wife and ill son. Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler's List) play

Twenty years after the original, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 struts onto the runway dripping big laughs, stunning locations, prime Meryl Streep and plenty of surprises. As we're dropped back into present day Manhattan, Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) has carved out a two decade career as a journalist. Just as she's winning an award for an expose, her entire team is fired and the publication they work for is shuttered. Print and Magazines are dead (yep!) and that's not good for Miranda

MUNICH is brilliant. It's no revelation that Steven Spielberg has made a lot of great movies that we all know and love. This is one of my favorite Spielberg films, and it's also one of his lesser known. Through incredible recreations and stellar casting, MUNICH opens with the Black September terrorists infiltrating the Olympic Village in 1972, holding the Israeli athletes hostage and killing them as the world watches. Spielberg deftly weaves actual news footage into his recre

Anytime I see "Authentic Paranormal Tales" in a film's description, I raise an eyebrow. Am I going to sit through 2 hours of Ghost Hunters where every shadow, pipe creak and cold spot is a tunnel to Hell? No thanks. I was drawn to Netflix's Documentary series TRUE HAUNTING due to its pedigree. Executive Producer James Wan has been behind some of my favorite horror of the past decade, including (as a Producer) Lee Cronin's The Mummy and The Conjuring films. OK, you've got my a

MICHAEL absolutely floored me, blowing away my expectations with at least three historical recreations that soared in Dolby Cinema. It's an absolute thriller. Ignore the naysayers that approached the film with their own agenda, mostly social media warriors that didn't see their own issues addressed. The film takes place from Michael's early years to the kickoff of his BAD Tour in London, before any accusations began surfacing. I'm watching the film as a lifelong fan of MJ's a

They don't make them like this anymore. Thank the film gods. Stately, dull and a complete waste of Bisset & Bergen, RICH AND FAMOUS is a 1981 melodrama that manages to even make sex boring. Director George Cukor (My Fair Lady, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight) turned out his fair share of film classics in the 40's and 50's, but this was his last, tired film. It's gasping on fumes as it reaches out to a past era of two hankie melodramas. Jacqueline Bisset (Bullitt, Airport) mo