With my busy eastern media elite schedule I haven’t had the time I’d like to give you, my tens of readers, the movie reviews that I’ve promised. So here are some capsule reviews of what I’ve been watched over the last few weeks courtesy of Netflix. I’ve also helpfully added the stars I gave them [...]
Paul Newman, a movie star who straddled the end years of golden Hollywood and the new Hollywood era of anti-heroes, has died after a battle with cancer. Newman was one of the great iconic actors in film with classic roles in films in every decade through the 1990s. He was an actor who transcended his [...]
Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy, and Eddie Murphy block out a scene for the new Beverly Hills Cop movie somewhere in the digital future… By Noah MallinAfter revivals of 80s franchises Indiana Jones and Rambo Eddie Murphy has thrown his hat into the idea exhaustion ring and will lead a revival of the moribund Beverly Hills [...]
An Appreciation by Noah Mallin Actor, Civil Rights activist and former President of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston has died at the age of 84. Heston’s greatest stardom was in the 1960s and 1970s when he starred in films like Planet of The Apes and Earthquake. Heston’s political views, once liberal and pro gun [...]
An Appreciation by Noah Mallin These last few weeks have been something of a deathwatch at Planet of Sound with great masters going left and right. Now, just a week after one of his great leading men died, writer, actor and director Jules Dassin has gone. That leading man was Richard Widmark, indelibly brilliant in [...]
The Twitters