Anthony Hopkins, left, and Matthew Goode in a scene from“Freud’s Last Session.” 14 Sunset, LB Entertainment, Last Session Productions “Freud’s Last Session,” directed by Matt Brown (“The Man Who Knew Infinity”) is a dark film we don’t need right now, but it brings us the gifted Anthony Hopkins (“Silence of the Lambs,” an even darker […]
J.P. Devine
On the Edge: After the storm
J.P. Devine ponders what it took to survive the storm before Christmas.
‘Maestro’ is a ‘big’ picture
“Maestro” movie star Bradley Cooper’s big, new film about composer and world-famous manic conductor Leonard Bernstein, just opened on Netflix. Bernstein, even as a star, was always addressed as “Lenny” by everyone in his world. “Maestro” opens with an aging Bernstein, as he is being interviewed by a film crew at the end of his […]
On the Edge: Blow the house down
Recalling how he weathered a storm in 1947, J.P. Devine imagines the Big Bad Wolf coming to howl once again.
Golden moment in ‘Archie’ makes entire series worth seeing, J.P. Devine writes
What we have here is a story, one of many, of the man we all loved and thought we knew. Archibald Alexander Leach, better known as Cary Grant, was arguably, the most famous, best known and imitated movie star in film history. Director Paul Andrew Williams’ (“The Cottage,” 2008) “Archie” is partly based on “Dear […]
On the Edge: Orange Chicken on Santa’s beard
With the power out, J.P. Devine looks for light in memories of Christmas outings at the mall.
‘George C. Scott’s Scrooge will never be topped,’ J.P. Devine writes
After spending a lifetime watching Charles Dickens, I settled long ago on Clive Donner’s 1984 version with the best Ebenezer Scrooge of all, George C. Scott. First of all, it was the best television production we’ve ever seen. Scott has all the requisite physical gnarls and attitudes to convey the loathing the public has for […]
On the Edge: For Yaffa Adar on Hanukkah
The recent terrors inflicted on Jewish people has J.P. Devine pondering survival and freedom during this holy season.
Netflix to divorce ‘Love Actually’ on Christmas, J.P. Devine says
Did you know that “ Love Actually,” the movie love story of eight different couples in Britain trying to figure how to get through Christmas 2003, will be dumped by Netflix on Dec. 25? 2003! That makes this the 20th anniversary of this big, wonderful Christmas story of eight everyday London couples. In Hollywood, there […]
On the Edge: The pie and my angel
A boy needs something to wear when it’s cold and late and the pie needs baking and the tree needs trimming, J.P. Devine writes.