Great Movies
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2020
The latest and greatest on Blu-ray and DVD, including Tenet, The Irishman, Possessor, The Dark and the Wicked, and special edition releases of Total Recall, The Lord of the Rings, and Tremors.
The latest and greatest on Blu-ray and DVD, including Tenet, The Irishman, Possessor, The Dark and the Wicked, and special edition releases of Total Recall, The Lord of the Rings, and Tremors.
LOS ANGELES Bill Paxton has an Oscar contender and a giant gorilla movie coming out within a couple of weeks of each other, and that's the story of his career. He makes little movies ("One False Move," "Traveller," "Trespass") and big ones ("True Lies," "Apollo 13," "Twister"). In the big ones, he is a stalwart leading man - like his hero, the fellow Texan Ben Johnson, whose every word sounded like the simple truth. In the little ones, Paxton plays regular guys who get twisted into strange traps of crime and guilt.
Q. Re the problem of motion sickness in films that make use of hand-held cameras: Actually the easiest way to get over it is just close your eyes and the sensation passes quickly. (Doug Fletcher, RN, Journal of Nursing Jocularity, Mesa, AZ)
NEW YORK -- "Speechless" is a movie about two political consultants for different parties, who fall in love. So I'm talking with Michael Keaton, the star of the movie, and I say, "I gather this screenplay was written before Mary Matalin and James Carville became a couple."
