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Tonight in DVR: Ewan McGregor’s Bad Trip

We’re here to tell you just how to set your DVR before heading out for drinks or dinner–or just watching something better on TV!

The Ghost Writer: This 2010 political thriller got a bit buried by a crummy release date, and by an audience newly aware of Roman Polanski from international-crime news, not the Hollywood Read More

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Evangelical Send-Up Salvation Boulevard Unwittingly Proves That There is a Hell: Sitting Through It

On the wobbly heels of the disastrous atheist film The Ledge comes another hopeless flop about the hypocrisy and homicidal passions of evil born-again Christians, called Salvation Boulevard. I’m not taking sides. I’m just telling you it’s a stupid farrago of aborted ideas, misguided actors, lame direction, submental writing and follow-the-dots plotting that never Read More

The Age of Grief

THE GREATEST
RUNNING TIME 98 minutes
WRITTEN AND directed by Shana Feste
STARRING  Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan, Michael Shannon

3 Eyeballs out of 4

Grief comes cloaked in as many forms as the tragedies that cause it. Almost all of them are on view in The Greatest, a somber, sensitively Read More

Ghost in the Machine

The Ghost Writer
Running time 128 minutes
Written by Robert Harris and Roman Polanski
Directed by Roman Polanski
Starring  Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia William

Can one put aside all the turmoil and controversy swirling around Roman Polanski while watching his latest film The Ghost Writer? Not very easily: The 76-year-old Read More

Mamma Meryl! ABBA-thon Even Defeats Streep

MAMMA MIA!
RUNNING TIME 108 minutes
WRITTEN BY Catherine Johnson
DIRECTED BY Phyllida Lloyd
STARRING Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters

Amid the summer junk-movies that are already going down in history as artifacts, some folks will welcome, I Read More

Police Investigate Pierce Brosnan For Alleged Assault

The AP reported today that Pierce Brosnan is being investigated as the possible perpetrator in an assault, which allegedly took place outside of a Mexican restaurant in Malibu, Calif., where the 54-year-old Irish-born thespian resides with his family. A spokesman for the L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. identified the alleged victim as a certain Robert Rosen. Read More

Just How ‘Indie’ Is The New York Film Festival?

Late last night in the front room of O’Neals Restaurant at West 64th Street and Broadway, director Ira Sachs was explaining the importance of the New York Film Festival.

“A commitment to cinema—over a long period of time—as an art form,” the 42-year-old director said, was the hallmark of the festival, which for the first Read More

Funny, Fiftysomething Pierce Returns as The Matador

Richard Shepard’s The Matador, from his own screenplay, casts Pierce Brosnan in his first role since he was dropped from the James Bond series. This is to say that if the 52-year-old Mr. Brosnan were still on board as 007, he wouldn’t have been allowed to branch out in The Matador as a privately hired Read More