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Fred Schruers

Fred Schruers

Stunts, Man-"The Fall Guy"'s Got `Em

Stunts, Man-"The Fall Guy"'s Got `Em

Ryan Gosling (and Emily Blunt) keep it super profesh in “The Fall Guy”. It’s not supposed to be deep. Does anybody remember the 1980 film “The Stunt Man”? It was little-seen, though It won Peter O’Toole an Oscar nomination and also got a nom for Richard Rush as

A Time of Retribution

A Time of Retribution

O.J. Simpson could have left a robust and positive legacy as one of America’s legendary sports heroes. And there’s no American hero like a sports hero. When he died this month of cancer, his painful story came to the most cheerless of endings. My experience of O.

"Ripley"'s Grain

"Ripley"'s Grain

If ever a show was a great fit for the West Side of L.A.—and I say this as a fellow denizen—it’s Steve Zaillian’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith crime classic, “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” re-billed "Ripley". It probably isn’t a good idea,

Man What Are You Doing Here?

Man What Are You Doing Here?

The problem with yielding our entertainment choices to faceless corporations is there’s no face to slap when it all goes wrong. What had been intended as a heavy-rotation, hyped-to-the-point-of-aggravation event was all but undone near the end of Sunday night's two-hour presentation of Billy Joel’s 100thconcert

Jake Gyllenhaal Keeps the Faith as "Road House" Rocks Once More

Jake Gyllenhaal Keeps the Faith as "Road House" Rocks Once More

Dalton: Well, the owner’s havin’ a little trouble, I guess, and I’m…just here to clean it up. Charlie: That kinda sounds like the plot to a western. This exchange between Jake Gyllenhaal’s Elwood Dalton character and his young protégé-to-be Charlie—a wised-up, African-American lass who is

A Most Violent Year

A Most Violent Year

Yes, that’s the quite marvelous actor Dev Patel above, as we see him at a turning point early on in "Monkey Man.” Soon we learn his character Kid is mad as hell and he most certainly is not gonna take it anymore. It was also Patel's

Redemption Song: Marley on film, Marley on tour

Redemption Song: Marley on film, Marley on tour

There are manifold reasons the term `biopic’ tends to unnerve filmgoers– and, more particularly, true fans of the given film’s subject. For all the good will the filmmakers may possess—and “Bob Marley: One Love” is for better or worse a work thoroughly controlled by Marley’s survivors—it’