Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060 Question: Has the final Harry Potter book been halved for the movie screen for commercial reasons or artistic ones? Answer: Yes. Its blockbuster status virtually...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘The Guard’
By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060 At one point, Don Cheadle says to Brendan Gleeson, “I can’t tell if you’re really (bleeping) dumb or really (bleeping) smart.” As for the movie they’re in, it’s much...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘Albert Nobbs’
By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060 As the title character in Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close hides in plain sight. She plays a woman passing as a man in nineteenth-century Ireland so that she can make a decent...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘Safe House’
By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060 Safe House is a gritty action thriller about corruption that’s cynical, hard-edged, two-fisted, and only minimally interested in its own subject matter. Denzel...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘The Raven’
By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Once upon a midnight dreary, came this thriller, dark and eerie. Okay, I’ll stop. Yes, Edgar Allan Poe enthusiasts, this one’s for you. (2½ stars out of...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘The Company You Keep’
By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — As an actor for over half a century and as a filmmaker for over three decades, Robert Redford has been, at the very least, good company. His...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘Edge of Tomorrow’
By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Maj. Bill Cage is in a cage of sorts, one that borders on the inconceivable. He’s never actually experienced combat. Yet, suddenly, he finds...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘The Grand Seduction’
By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Grand Seduction isn’t quite grand, but it is seductive. (2½ stars out of 4) It’s a Canadian comedy about small-town community and economic...
View ArticleMovie Review: Calvary
By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Irish character actor Brendan Gleeson has always been a force to be reckoned with as a supporting player or co-star in such films as Gangs of New...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘Song of the Sea’
By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — In the midst of this era of high-tech, computer-animated, 3-D moviemaking we find ourselves in, here’s a work of low-tech, 2-D animation that...
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