At Sunday’s Debate, Trump Said He Never Touched a Woman Inappropriately. Let the Deluge Begin!
OCTOBER 14, 2016 Photo: Getty I was going to post this blog on Thursday, but the stream of women coming out of the shadows to tell their stories of…
Month: October 2016
Emily Blunt is the Only Reason to See the Otherwise Sluggish “The Girl on the Train”
OCTOBER 12, 2016 I have been known to patronize a Starbucks or two now and then, and last year, whenever I would bring my coffee out to the patio,…
Presidential Debate #2 — Clinton Talks While Trump Stalks in the Weirdest Debate Yet
OCTOBER 11, 2016 Photo: AP Those were probably the most surreal 90 minutes of political television that I’ve ever seen. I suspected that this would be a circus when,…
Nate Parker’s Powerful But Uneven “The Birth of a Nation” Hits Theaters With a Lot of Baggage
OCTOBER 9, 2016 This is a really tough film to review, as it comes with an uncommon amount of baggage. Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation,” which opened…
HBO’s Pilot for “Westworld” is Better Than Any Feature Film That I’ve Seen This Year
OCTOBER 6, 2016 Being an Emmy voter (please, please hold your applause), I have screened a lot of pilots in my time, but the first episode of HBO’s “Westworld”…
The Vice-Presidential Debate — Though I Thought It Would Be a Snoozer, It Was Anything But
OCTOBER 5, 2016 Photo: AP Well, that’s not what I expected. Tuesday night’s single Vice-Presidential debate took place at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia with Indiana’s Republican Governor Mike…
After the Worst Week in Presidential Campaign History, Donald Trump Manages to Have a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Weekend
OCTOBER 4, 2016 Photo: AP Sorry folks, but it’s Donald Trump again. The meltdown of these last eight days will likely be taught in political science classes for years…
“Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” — Another Swing and a Miss From Tim Burton
OCTOBER 3, 2016 “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” marks yet another slide in the steadily declining career of Tim Burton. For God’s sake, this is the man who…
