published by Barry Paris on October 25, 2019 - 12:00am
“Get Me Roger Stone,” the 2017 Netflix documentary, was a piquant portrait of a pivotal political pal of Donald Trump. Now comes its unofficial prequel — or companion piece — called “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”
published by Barry Paris on October 11, 2019 - 12:00am
Dark forces shaped the life and brilliant career of director Joseph Losey. Even darker forces shape the life of Mr. Klein, the title character of his last great film.
published by Barry Paris on October 11, 2019 - 12:00am
The mildly macabre “Addams Family” has been entertaining people on TV and movie screens for half a century, or much longer if you go back to its edgier 1937 roots in the New Yorker: Creator Charles Addams (who married his third wife in a pet cemetery) drew 1,300 cartoons for the magazine up to his death in 1988, by which time he was internationally revered as “the Grandaddy of Goth.”
published by Barry Paris on September 20, 2019 - 12:00am
The excitement is equally enormous, upstairs and down, among the aristocrats and servants alike — some of them shedding tears of joy at the news — King George V and Queen Mary themselves will be visiting “Downton Abbey.”
published by Barry Paris on August 30, 2019 - 12:00am
The convict-colonization of Australia was in full swing by 1825, when we find Clare (Aisling Franciosi) singing a beautifully bittersweet song in a rowdy Tasmanian tavern.
published by Barry Paris on August 23, 2019 - 12:00am
Twenty-something Zak has Down syndrome. He spends his identical days in a backwater North Carolina nursing home, watching the same videotape — over and over — of his professional wrestling idol, the Salt Water Redneck, in dynamic action. That ancient tape includes a recruitment ad for The Redneck’s famed wrestling school nearby.
