Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F Review

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is ton of fun, giving Eddie Murphy a strong outing that will please old fans and win new ones. PLOT: After an attempt on his daughter’s life and the disappearance of his friend Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) returns to Beverly Hills to do battle with a … Read more

The Heat Is On Again

Beverly Hills Cop became the most successful cinematic showcase for Eddie Murphy’s talents, but it wasn’t designed for him. It was conceived as a straight-forward Sylvester Stallone vehicle, and it remained that way until just a few weeks before filming began, when Stallone dropped out and Murphy subbed in at the last minute. The conceit wound up working … Read more

The Artful Tenderness of A Quiet Place: Day One | MZS

“Day One” takes its sweet time getting to the inciting incident (alien invasion) and instead sets up the plight of its heroine Sam, a terminal cancer patient spending her final days in a Brooklyn hospice that seems to be populated mainly by seniors. Sam is played by Lupita Nyong’o, an expert at reaction-driven horror performances, having played … Read more

Chinatown screenwriter Robert Towne has died at 89.

Robert Towne, who wrote the Academy Award-winning screenplay for Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, has died at the age of 89. Robert Towne, the screenwriter who wrote the Academy Award-winning original script for Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, has died at the age of 89. His publicist, Carri Mclure, announced that Towne died at his home in Los Angeles … Read more

Why Affleck and Damon Wrote an X-Rated Robin Williams Scene

Sometimes it’s all about nostalgia and I totally went down that road watching the 1997 block buster, award-winning Good Will Hunting, arguably one of the best movies of all time about a gifted janitor working at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Like so many of us, we Google things about movies we’re watching and while doing that, I came … Read more