Harlan Jacobson's Pays Tribute to George Floyd
In all my years reporting on cinema, I have never seen 8.5 minutes of footage that has sparked a global call to action, as we’ve witnessed with the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.
2020
Harlan Jacobson's post-election reflections: The Queen's Gambit and On The Rocks
After all that has been said about Mssrs. Biden and Trump and how they differ from soup to nuts, in that order, the one thing they shared as candidates and men was being old, part of a generation that is leaving the stage, gracefully or otherwise. And which is devoutly being anticipated by younger generations—as we saw from the primaries through the general election.
Harlan Jacobson's Tribute to the Legendary Little Richard
R&B, ROCK & GOSPEL legend Little Richard left us this year. You can spend some time listening to him or even looking at him on film. There’s a wonderful scene in Get On Up, director Tate Taylor’s 2014 biopic of James Brown, as played by Chadwick Boseman, when Brown crosses the orbit of this live wire, Little Richard, somewhere down South.
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Directed by Stanley Kramer
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Directed by Stanley Kramer
By Ron Falzone
There are a lot of rules when it comes to comedy:
“Less is more." “Never play the joke.” “Small and smart is better than big and dumb.” “It’s not a job for amateurs,” or, as the great tragedienne Edmund Keane put it, “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.”
It's Always Fair Weather, Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
It's Always Fair Weather, Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
By Ron Falzone
Why is It’s Always Fair Weather, available on Amazon, always left in the backwater when talking about the great MGM musicals?
