Movie Review: “The Rescue”

Oct 14, 2021 | Movies

I’ll cut to the chase: “The Rescue” is one of the best documentaries I’ve watched this year. It re-tells the story from 2018 of the rescue of a Thai soccer team, consisting of a dozen boys and their coach, who had gone off to explore some...

Movie Review: “Hard Luck Love Song”

Oct 13, 2021 | Movies

Jesse (Michael Dorman, the lawyer/brother in “The Invisible Man”) is a down-on-his-luck singer/songwriter who hustles pool to make a few bucks as he moves town to town. Once he gets to a new locale, he scopes out the pool rooms, then goes to work —...

Goodbye, Gruden

Oct 12, 2021 | Blog

The thought that kept going through my head last night while ESPN was reporting on Jon Gruden’s ouster as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders — because of a slew of racist, homophobic, and misogynistic emails he’d sent over a 7-year span beginning a...

The Amodio Rodeo Ends

Oct 11, 2021 | Television

That was the classy tweet from Matt Amodio after his 38-game streak of wins on “Jeopardy!” ended today. That leaves him second on the all-time list, only halfway to the still-unbelievable 75 victories Ken Jennings racked up. So, how did Amodio lose? The...

My Triple Show Week

Oct 11, 2021 | Music, Theater

I have friends and family members whose fear of COVID is so strong, they can’t harbor the idea of being indoors with a bunch of people they don’t know. But I trust the vaccinations I received in April, so I’ve gone to movies, restaurants, theater,...

Movie Review: “No Time To Die”

Oct 7, 2021 | Movies

“No Time To Die,” the 25th movie in the James Bond series, doesn’t start with a spectacular action sequence as so many of its predecessors did. But you don’t have to wait very long before Bond is involved in a high-speed chase with bullets...