HollywoodandFine.com Fashion entered my life in junior high school, when it suddenly became imperative that I own a Gant dress shirt, the kind with a loop on the back. These were deemed the ne plus ultra of cool – and the only place you could buy them was the Northbriar …
By Armond White Why waste spleen on Michael Bay? He’s a real visionary–perhaps mindless in some way (he‘s never bothered filming a good script), but Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is more proof he has a great eye for scale and a gift for visceral amazement. Bay’s ability to …
Cablevision is holding onto its lease for the iconic Ziegfeld Theatre but will turn management over to Bow Tie Cinemas, which has a contract pending to buy almost all of Cablevision’s Clearview Clearview Cinemas chain — 41 theaters, mostly in New Jersey, as well as some in Long Island, Westchester …
I had the fantastic time again over the weekend at my third TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, an event that just keeps getting better and better in its fourth year. This is one brilliantly curated series of films and special events with fantastic celebrities (Norman Lloyd and France Nuyen …
Just-ended April was quite a month for Barbra Streisand and her fans. She was feted last week at Lincoln Center (I wasn’t invited) and a couple of days later a specacular restoration of “Funny Girl” opened the TCM Classic Film Festival (I showed up, she didn’t). Plus both “Funny Girl” …
By Armond White Michael Bay sees like an ad-man gone wild— glorifying everything–a vision that corresponds to the age’s consumerist sensibility: greed and the need for speed. In Pain & Gain this style—and it is a genuine style, not fake flashiness like Trance or Side Effects—expresses the lusty and acquisitive …
HollywoodandFine.com So is the third film the decider in a series? Two out of three good enough for immortality? In the case of “Iron Man Three” (as the closing credits have it), I’d say it’s probably too close to call. Jon Favreau’s first two “Iron Man” films were a split …
HollywoodandFine.com “Love Is All You Need” is an unexpectedly upbeat film from the chronically downbeat Susanne Bier – if you can use upbeat to describe a romance between a cancer survivor and a still-grieving widower. Labeling this film a romantic comedy is probably a mistake; romantic dramedy is more like …
By Armond White The worst Steven Spielberg production ever is, without doubt, his Obama homage, Steven Spielberg’s Obama. Unlike his disingenuous Obama-in-disguise campaign feature film, Lincoln, this two-minute satirical short looks artless and slapdash; it was made for last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner–an annual event for fatcats that contradicts …
HollywoodandFine.com It seems startling to me that so few people recognize the name of actor Michael Shannon when they hear it. Perhaps “The Iceman” will make the difference. Shannon, after all, has an Oscar nomination under his belt (for “Revolutionary Road”). He has been the star of a handful of …
