Shane Black is a genius—but you would never know it from watching his reboot of “The Predator.” This is the guy who wrote “Lethal Weapon,” “The Monster Squad” and “The Last Boy Scout” while still being fairly new to the movie business. Since 2005, he’s been on a creative hot streak as a director with […]
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The Good Fight
Gosling and Crowe aren’t nice guys
Shane Black makes movies people either love or hate. There never seems to be any middle ground. His filmography is filled with smash hits or financial disappointments, nary a mild success to be found. In his early ’20s he sold the script for “Lethal Weapon.” Over the next few years he had his fingers in […]
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Summer Movie Lineup
Mandatory Fun, Part I: May & June releases
Welcome to the Summer Movie Preview. Last weekend’s arrival of “Captain America: Civil War” was the early dawn of 2016’s summer movie season. There will be big actors, enormous explosions and the largest budgets the American film industry has ever seen this year. The following mandatory fun list includes the bigger flicks of May and […]