The enjoyment you get out of The Last Play at Shea is directly proportional to your tolerance of Billy Joel and love of the New York Mets. Paul Crowder’s documentary about Mr. Joel performing the final concert at Shea Stadium premiered at Tribeca this week and it will make anyone who grew up in the Read More
THEN SHE FOUND ME
Running Time 100 minutes
Written and Directed by Helen Hunt
Starring Helen Hunt, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Colin Firth
Then She Found Me, directed and co-written by Helen Hunt, who also stars, is a funny and touching story about the way we create families both by blood Read More
There’s one terrific reason to see Yasmina Reza’s latest trifle, Life (x) 3 . In an otherwise dispiriting evening, Linda Emond gives the best performance of an alcoholic I’ve ever seen.
She’s the truest of actresses in everything she does. But what Ms. Emond is up to here reminds us, quite simply, that she’s the Read More
Woody Allen’s The
Curse of the Jade Scorpion made many people laugh during the screening I
attended, mostly from the ferocity of the insults exchanged between Mr. Allen’s
C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator circa 1940, and Helen Hunt’s Betty Ann
Fitzgerald, the firm’s bossy efficiency expert. As it happens, I didn’t even
smile once, but Read More
When Good Actors Direct So-So Movies
With decent roles in acceptable scripts on the wane, more and more gifted actors are turning to directing their own movies. Bonnie Hunt and Edward Norton are the latest gamblers in these “winner take all” sweepstakes, with varying degrees of success.
Although the multi-talented Ms. Hunt (not Read More
Without Stanwyck, It’s Still Gargantuan
I’ve been down on the Titanic with Barbara Stanwyck so many times, it’s hard to imagine doing it again without her. Alas, the new, colossal and mega-expensive ($200 million is the official tab, but insiders inform me the cost is more accurate at $275 million and counting) Titanic could Read More
