The Amazing Johnathan is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside the guy whose act included a joke that, decades later, remains among the most original and deeply wrong things you could ever hope to hear.
Movies
There are worse things than being single on Valentine’s Day. The movie “Valentine’s Day,” for instance.
The disrupter has become the disrupted.
As titles go, “Incredibles 2” isn’t entirely accurate, but it’s bound to sell more tickets than something called “The Pretty Darned Goods.”
I grew up playing “Rampage.”
If Zak Bagans were a character in a horror movie, you’d never stop screaming at him.
The superhero adventure is an important movie that doesn’t feel like being forced to eat kale, thanks to car chases, shootouts and subtle bursts of humor.
Some covert operatives take no prisoners. Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien) takes no orders.
As a die-hard Red Sox fan, Ben Affleck may resent the comparison to Yankees great Reggie Jackson, but the actor has become Hollywood’s version of Mr. October.
Take away its racially and politically charged overtones and “Desierto” really isn’t all that different from this summer’s surprise hit “The Shallows.” That is, once you swap out the shark for a racist, psychopathic Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Blake Lively in a barely there bikini for a fully clothed Gael Garcia Bernal.
The Las Vegas native, best known until recently as one of the twisted minds behind the Freakling Bros. Haunted Houses, opens his first feature film, “Outlaws and Angels,” Friday at AMC Town Square and on video on demand.
The announcement of four more versions of “Avatar,” a refreshing Jeff Goldblum and peeks at upcoming comedies, action and shoot-‘em-ups closed out the CinemaCon convention on Thursday at Caesars Palace.
Every sensible executive in Hollywood should have laughed Guy Ritchie out of the room.
In addition to coming off like a more lifeless version of last fall’s Keanu Reeves vehicle “John Wick,” “Run All Night” feels a lot like every “Liam Neeson with a gun” movie — which is sadly becoming every Liam Neeson movie.
Hollywood is avoiding the traditional holiday pileups this year by taking more of an advent calendar style approach to doling out its biggest movies.