Top 10 observations about ‘Top Gun’ (1986)
Movie commentary: With “Top Gun: Maverick” hitting theaters, here’s my look back at one of the core event movies of the Eighties.
Movie commentary: With “Top Gun: Maverick” hitting theaters, here’s my look back at one of the core event movies of the Eighties.
Stephen King flashback (TV review): Not as bad as one would assume, “Firestarter: Rekindled” follows Charlie McGee and her troubles into her 20s.
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Even considering it’s a spy yarn rather than a murder mystery, this is one of Agatha Christie’s most outside-the-box novels.
Movie review: Despite the heartfelt messages at its core, this creative SF comedy is undone by its bombastic style and length.
Book review: Nora and Corrie are together again, this time investigating one of the most famous mysteries in US history: the 1947 Roswell event.
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Christie’s playfulness is on display in “The Clocks,” where she gets amusingly cynical about the spy state.
Movie review: Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas keep us engaged as a psychologically off-kilter rich couple, but “Deep Water” is too simple to achieve greatness.
Movie review: Ryan Reynolds’ charm is in place, but the time-travel plot is so basic one wonders if this was conceived as a kids’ film.
Movie review: Steven Spielberg grandly resurrects the classic stage musical, and it’s unclear if its lack of fresh appeal is accidental or intentional.
Stephen King flashback (Book review): King’s definitive vampire novel is about more than vampires as it chronicles a crumbling Maine township in the 1970s.