The ‘Taken’ franchise of action dramas, starring a fit and towering Liam Neeson as an imposing ex-CIA / Black Ops hard-man, rivals Die Hard for its taut storylines and mind-blowing smash-’em-up action sequences. In all...
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On the silver screen – “Into the Woods” – Los Angeles movie review
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony award-winning musical comes to the screen in a lavish and beautifully mounted version. Sondheim purists always wince when a film adaptation of one of his musicals is...
Kurt Gardner
On location in Borneo shooting “Farewell To The King” – a story by Jeff Ramsey.
Released in 1989, the feature film “Farewell To The King” starred Nick Nolte and was directed by John Milius. Based on the 1969 novel L’Adieu au Roi by Pierre Schoendoerffer, it tells the WWII tale of an American...
“The Theory of Everything” – Los Angeles movie review
Anchored by a superb central performance, The Theory of Everything is a well-executed and moving portrait of Stephen Hawking, a man who refused to let a debilitating disease stop him from finding love, happiness and...
Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection – Los Angeles book review
Ah, L.A. in the mid-1980s — what a magical place. The punk rock scene was going strong, KROQ ruled the radio dial, Elvira’s “Movie Macabre” was a Saturday night must-see on KHJ-TV, and I was working at a down-at...