Posted by Mike Finnegan on Nov 10th 2017
“In the most effortless performance of his movie career, Frank Sinatra played a character who seemed closer to his real self than any he had ever portrayed.” Biographer James Kaplan makes that asse
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Oct 13th 2017
Tomorrow night’s New York Film Festival world premiere of Woody Allen’s new film Wonder Wheel coincides with the 29th anniversary of the arrival of another serious-minded Allen study of disappointed
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Apr 5th 2017
Deception and larceny play major parts in the striking lineup of Twilight Time hi-def Blu-ray releases on the docket for an April 18 unveiling. Another Woman (1988) is writer/director Woody Allen’s
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Mar 30th 2017
Thanks to the generous access he’s had and considerable time spent talking with Woody Allen across four decades, author Eric Lax has produced three insightful books about the prolific writer/directo
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Jul 5th 2016
Among the last handful of the 50+ movies in his four-decade acting career, Frank Sinatra, preeminent saloon singer and national treasure, found a home playing hardened, sometimes tortured, always cy
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