A cold wind is blowing and Starbucks is closed, J.P. Devine writes.
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J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Big Bang Theory’
Like the iconic “Friends,” each member of the cast blends with one another like ingredients in a perfect soup that keeps entertaining a new generation of fans, J.P. Devine writes.
J.P. Devine: Limericks and laments
In these dark days of the pandemic and political wars, a light limerick and a flicker of hope can light the way forward, J.P. Devine writes.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Flight Attendant’
Adventures of good time girl end with worst flight, date and nightmare.
J.P. Devine: The piano and me
Playing Cole Porter’s “Every time We Say Goodbye” on the ivory keys has J.P. Devine hopeful that it’s the start of a glorious New Year.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘A Very Murray Christmas’
Good old Bill Murray film sometimes funny, packed with wonderful stars.
J.P. Devine: The lady in white
This Christmas, as thousands of nurses and doctors in blue scrubs hold the hands of the millions of the dying, J.P. Devine is thinking of his mother in her starched white dress and cap, bringing a cupcake home.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Love Actually’
In my house, “Love Actually” holds the Christmas Eve must watch, even before “The Bishop’s Wife” and “It’s a Wonderful Life,” J.P. Devine writes.
J.P. Devine: How to be funny during dark times
It’s really hard to stand in the light when so many are in the dark, to be funny when so many are crying, but J.P. Devine had early training.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Mank’
Mank. The man who wrote “Citizen Kane.” Tell me you’ve never seen “Citizen Kane.” Of course you have. Turner Classics runs it almost monthly. You’ve seen the young Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane rip up a bedroom in one long take, clutter up Hearst Castle with art from all Europe, run for public office […]