A few weeks before the movie Contagion turned into a streaming phenomenon, I re-watched my DVD of it, spurred by memories of a believable look at how somethi...

A stay in Ely led Stephen King to write his Desperation book and teleplay, but my travels there for the city's film festival showed abundance, inspiration a...

From Debbie Anderson, personal assistant to Leo Buscaglia, author of the #5 bestselling book of the 1980s, Living, Loving and Learning: "I hope you and Fred ...

To rework the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman with the good fortune to adore Jane Austen books...

Screen legend Max Von Sydow, who died today, earned his status through great work with Ingmar Bergman and a wealth of movies spanning many decades. Sadly for...

With a current culture reboot, The Invisible Man more accurately qualifies as “The Invisible Man’s Girlfriend” by taking a twist on the H.G. Wells classic no...

Expectations get caught in an avalanche and slide away with the so-called comedy Downhill. Instead of the broad, character-driven laughs stars Julia Louis Dr...

Harrison Ford fights the need for CGI computer effects with Call of the Wild when he takes off his shirt and shows off muscles popping in all the right place...

One of my first assignments as the area’s state film commissioner in 1987 involved driving the actor-producer Robert Conrad around the entire circuit of Lake...

When Academy members chose their lineup of best movies from 2019, they faced another round of “Oscars so White” criticism—but not when it comes to selecting ...

I felt lucky when Kirk Douglas came to Reno for his 1999 feature Diamonds where he played a former boxer who left a treasure here in town. Of course, he was ...

With the the two big Oscar Best Picture predictors coming out from the producers and screen actors guilds, I'm thrilled to see SAG push Parasite up in conte...

Review 2020 Like a Boss January 17 Like a Boss gets dinged badly in review aggregate sites like Rotten Tomatoes because it falls in that “coulda-woulda-shoud...

Review 2020 Just Mercy Jan. 10 With moral righteousness on its side, the movie Just Mercy wins its main battle by showing how racism ruins the judiciary sys...

Review 2020 1917 January Many family members hear the proverbial quote “war stories,” but Academy Award winning director Sam Mendes takes the process a step...

Like Santa Clause, movie critics spend much of December checking their lists. Best film. Best horror film. Best Comedy film. Ten best films. And so on. Here ...

Judy Garland, the screen legend who never won an Oscar, becomes awards bait in the new biopic about her. The movie Judy lets Renee Zellweger transform hersel...

Hey, guess what happens in the movie "Brittany Runs a Marathon?" Yup, a woman named Brittany eventually laces up her shoes and hits a 26.2-mile course in New...