The Green Prince Review

A real life spy thriller proving the truth is stranger than fiction. It is unusual, but not unheard of, for a young Palestinian to be recruited by Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence machine to provide inside information on Hamas. So there is little amazing in the 2010 ABC News story that Mosab Hassan Yousef , “The

Last Days in Vietnam Review

Emotion packed thriller of America’s Southeast Asia Dunkirk. In the year of 1975 both American and the Republic of South Vietnam were struggling, against the odds, to bring peace with dignity to Southeast Asia. The Paris Peace accords of two years’ earlier had established a framework of commitment and cooperation to end the war. In

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Recap: BravoTV’s ‘Below Deck,’ The I’m Not Your Geisha Boy Edition

Tonight’s episode of BravoTV’s “Below Deck” should have been titled “What Not to Do in the Service Industry.” Then everybody watching could have treated that hot mess like a live tutorial on how not to behave toward paying guests on a multi-million dollar charter yacht. No seriously, as somebody who owns a company that provides

Red Alert! A Movie Mogul’s Ten Year Old Daughter Makes a Movie and It Gets into TIFF!

Sloan Avrich grew up watching her father Barry Avrich produce and direct movies and stage productions. Some of his most iconic films Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story, Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky, Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew and The Citizen Cohl: Untold Story reveal his passion for unique real life characters.

Life of Crime, Daniel Schechter’s Black Comedy is Shockingly Funny

Jennifer Aniston and Tim Robbins are husband and wife in Life of Crime, Daniel Schechter’s adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel Switch. A pair of incompetent – but likeable – cons (John Hawkes and Mos Def) kidnap her and demand $1M in ransom.  Her husband’s not paying, so she joins forces with the abductors to wreak

What Doesn’t Kill You at the Toronto International Film Festival

Rob Grant came to the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors Lab in Toronto with a wealth of experience editing the films Cabin in the Woods, The A-Team, Twilight: Breaking Dawn, and 20th Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He’d spent time writing and directing films to prepare for his new path before joining

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Recap: ‘Below Deck,’ How NOT to Treat the Guests Edition

We all knew that deckhand Andrew was lying about his experience on BravoTV’s “Below Deck,” but we didn’t realize quite how bad it was. Like it was total fiction. Kid doesn’t know anything about anything and it’s actually dangerous for him and the rest of the crew. You have to know what the heck you’re

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Recap: ‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Gotti Bombshell Edition

To borrow a line from Antonique Smith’s song – “Hold Up, Wait a Minute!” Did Victoria Gotti just tell us that Rino slept with his mother-in-law to cause his first divorce from Teresa? I think that’s what was just revealed in the last two minutes of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” on BravoTV tonight.