Stars align in Silver Linings Playbook

YEP YEP – The best romantic comedies arrive when two stars line up at just the right time in their careers, the director is in command, and the writing doesn’t pander. It’s the genre every Hollywood super agent covets most for his or her star clients. Mainly, because it is so hard to get the chemical … Continue reading →

Skyfall everything Bond supposed to be

YEP YEP – Bond is back, baby. Shaken, not stirred, homie. Skyfall, the latest chapter of the never-ending (23rd!) Ian Fleming secret agent franchise, gets everything right. And then some. The story is simple, the dialogue snappy with double entendres flying fast and furious, the cars are shiny and sleek, the women are gorgeous, the villain is … Continue reading →

Lincoln goes by the book

YEP YEP – “We have the fate of human dignity in our hands,” President Abraham Lincoln pleads to his cabinet on the eve of the perilous vote to pass the 13th Amendment and thus abolish slavery once and for all. That is the nuts and bolts of the scope of director Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated and finally … Continue reading →

Early sneak peek at Hitchcock: A triumph of suspense…and romance?

YEP YEP – Hitchcock will hit theaters on November 23rd. I know, I know, we all have Lincoln on the brain and Bond on the front burner. But if the casting of Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren doesn’t fire you up to head back to the Bijou for Hitchcock, then you aren’t thinking clearly. You are in for a treat. The film focuses … Continue reading →