Neal Pollack

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Where Are All the Movie Theater COVID Cases?

September 18, 2020September 19, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Coronavirus, COVID-19, movie theater, movies, South Korea, Venice Film Festival

Not one reported case, anywhere in the world

FICTION

I’m Reading the Booker Prize Long List Novels So You Don’t Have To

September 14, 2020September 16, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Apeirogon, Booker Prize, Colum McCann, Douglas Stuart, Kiley Reid, Lee Child, Shuggie Bain, Such a Fun Age, This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga

They are sad and also depressing

FILM TELEVISION

Gen-X Never Dies

September 7, 2020September 16, 2020 Neal Pollack 4 Comments Brian Austin Green Mark-Paul Gosselar, Cobra Kai, Friends, Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Johnny Lawrence, Mario Lopez, Maverick, Ralph Macchio, The Breakfast Club, The Karate Kid, Tom Cruise, Tori Spelling, William Zabka

Cobra Kai, Bill & Ted, Top Gun, and the third-greatest generation’s endlessly expanding universe of nostalgia

FILM

‘Tenet’: We Risked Our Lives for THIS?

September 3, 2020September 10, 2020 Neal Pollack 12 Comments Airplane!, Christopher Nolan, Elizabeth Debicki, Hans Zimmer, John David Washington, Kenneth Branagh, Robert Pattinson, Tenet, Top Secret!

The time-traveling spy thriller that saved movies or didn’t

Actors CREATORS FILM

Chadwick Boseman, RIP

August 29, 2020August 29, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 42, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, Fringe, Get on Up, Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Marshall, T'Challa, Thurgood Marshall

A legacy of performances without equal

FILM

Return to the Alamo

August 28, 2020September 1, 2020 Neal Pollack 4 Comments Alamo Drafthouse, Andrew Cuomo, AV Club, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Movie theaters, Tenet, Uproxx

I went to my favorite movie theater last night. Was it a mistake?

FILM

‘Unhinged’ at the Movies

August 25, 2020August 28, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Caren Pistorius, Russell Crowe, Unhinged

The very act of sitting in a theater puts you in the mindset of Russell Crowe’s character

TELEVISION

It’s Time To Play the Music

August 12, 2020August 16, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Bret McKenzie, Danny Trejo, Harry Belafonte, Jason Segel, John Mulaney, Lizzo, Louise Fletcher, Muppets Now, Peter Sellers, RuPaul, Taylor Swift, Zero Mostel

‘Muppets Now’ is missing the best thing about the Muppets–the songs. Here are some classic clips.

NON-FICTION Sports

I Don’t Care If I Never Get Back

August 6, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alex Rodriguez, Barstool Sports, baseball, Chris Taylor, ESPN, Joe Davis, Joe Kelly, Karl Ravech, Los Angeles Dodgers, Miami Marlins, Mike Clevinger, Mike Trout, Mookie Betts, Orel Hershiser, Rob Manfred

Weird rules, masked baserunners, piped-in sound, cardboard cutouts of dogs, whatever, it’s still baseball

FILM

National Lampoon’s Pandemic Vacation

August 3, 2020August 5, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Barbara Stanwyck, Chevy Chase, Deliverance, Force Majeure, Henry Fonda, Jacques Tati, John Candy, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, National Lampoon's Vacation, Preston Sturges, The Beach, The Great Outdoors, The Lady Eve, vacation

Vacation movies remind us that the holiday road usually has some potholes

FILM

‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Tops the Box Office

July 14, 2020July 21, 2020 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Ghostbusters, Irresistible, Mulan, Palm Springs, Relic, Tenet, The Empire Strikes Back

Forty years after its release

FILM

‘Palm Springs’: the Millennial Infinite Time Loop Movie

July 10, 2020July 17, 2020 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Meredith Hagner, Palm Springs

Andy Samberg and company say, “Find your Irvine”

FILM

‘Mr. Jones’ Exposes the Horrors of Stalin’s Famine

July 7, 2020July 8, 2020 Neal Pollack 3 Comments Agnieska Holland, James Norton, Mr. Jones, Peter Sarsgaard, Vanessa Kirby

and the complicity of The New York Times

Netflix TELEVISION

The Secrets of ‘Floor is Lava’

July 6, 2020July 8, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Floor is Lava, Wipeout

An interview with the hit game show’s executive producer

Actors CREATORS Directors Remembrance Writers

Carl Reiner, RIP

June 30, 2020July 1, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Albert Brooks, Carl Reiner, Jeopardy!, Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar, Steve Martin, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Jerk

Comedy legend passes away at 98

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