Rated PG-13, 103 Minutes, Released June 29 Uncle Drew will make you feel like you’re 6 years old, watching Saturday morning cartoons. This movie is just plain fun to watch. Basketball fans will love it, […]

What drives our fascination with dinosaurs? I am writing this from Denali National Park in Alaska where I’m spending the weekend. Yesterday our guide in the park pointed to a jagged reddish side mountainside. There, […]

    “Superfly” – A Great Escape, Rated R, 116 Minutes, Released June 13 “Superfly” is a striking movie and compelling story in which the world depicted at the beginning will change before the end. The tale follows […]

Rated PG-13, 110 Minutes, Released June 8 Can a movie draw you in with almost no violence, no explosions and no sex scenes? “Ocean’s 8” will do just that – and you will also have fun with […]

  A favorite at Sundance 2018, “American Animals” is a fascinating mix of documentary and classic heist story. Interviews with the real four protagonists of the 2004 event are interspersed with performances featuring actors playing […]

    “The Gospel According to André” is a magnificent study of one of the most fascinating figures of fashion over the past 40 years, André Leon Talley. This bio film, directed by Kate Novack, […]

Rated PG-13, 120 Minutes, Released May 25   Although she lived from 1797 to 1851, Mary Shelley has her own IMDB page (that’s the entertainment industry’s “encyclopedia.”) Few artists of the early 1800s can boast of an […]

The Final Year screens Monday on HBO. Documentary – Not Rated, 89 Minutes, Available HBO May 21 at 5 p.m.  Overheard conversation of a runner in Palisades Park while stretching: “Did you watch that documentary I told […]