“‘First Cow’ Is A Necessary Portrait Of Platonic Male Affection”

The start of a new franchise. Better get a ticket now before “Second Cow” and “Third Cow” go into production. Continue reading →

Review: The Finest Hours, 2016, dir. Craig Gillespie

  For me, watching The Finest Hours reinforced the necessity for watching movies before interviewing the talent involved in their production. Grant that this is very much an irregular practice for me, and that nobody on a set visit has seen the movie beforehand for obvious reasons. All the same, it was only inevitable that my … Continue reading →

The Finest Hours: The SS Pendleton Story, Fact & Fiction

“If adapting the tale of the 1952 SS Pendleton rescue – in which officers in the Coast Guard rescued the crew of the SS Pendleton and the SS Mercer off the coast of Massachusetts during a vicious nor’easter – for the movies sounds like a no-brainer, that’s because it was: when Casey Sherman, author of … Continue reading →