The new horror movie “Winchester” is “inspired” by the haphazard, supposedly haunted mansion built by firearms heiress Sarah Winchester, who’s played by Helen Mirren.
Christopher Lawrence
Movie and TV critic
Email: clawrence@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 380-4567
Christopher Lawrence escaped his native Kentucky without an accent thanks to the thousands of hours he spent in front of a television as a child. That’s also why he never learned how to ride a bicycle. He’s been writing about TV and movies since his days at Murray State University, when the school’s basketball coach had him reassigned at the student newspaper after just one story about the team. He’s been a professional TV critic since 2000, the Review-Journal’s TV critic since 2005 and its movie critic since 2012.
In celebration of Groundhog Day, and the 25th anniversary of “Groundhog Day,” here are some of the movie scenes you see over and over.
Coming up is a reboot of Cinemax’s sex-and-explosions action series “Strike Back” (10 p.m. Friday), a little more than two years after its finale.
If you were upset by the character arc of Oscar nominee Sam Rockwell’s racist cop in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” you might want to steer clear of “Hostiles.”
At this rate, we’re probably no more than five years away from Netflix livestreaming the entire Sundance Film Festival.
Race and sports book director Johnny Avello has again handicapped the race for the Academy Awards.
Much like the illegal fireworks that terrify your dog every Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve, reality shows tend to burn bright and fast.
The Chris Hemsworth-led picture feels like a half dozen or more recent war movies, which is what you can imagine the heads of various Hollywood studios saying —until producer Jerry Bruckheimer pleaded something along the lines of, “But, wait! This time there are horses!”
You might want to grab a Red Bull on your way into the theater for this coming-of-age romance.
After Oprah Winfrey’s soaring Golden Globes speech, deciding whether she’d want to subject herself to running for the presidency is the hard part.
“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” is inherently more interesting than its acclaimed predecessor, “The People vs. O.J. Simpson.”
You wouldn’t expect a movie that relies on pay phones, typewriters and Linotype to be the timeliest entry of the awards season.
Hedy Lamarr was one of the most beautiful women in the world and served as the physical inspiration for Snow White and Catwoman.
Have you invented something that you just know the world is clamoring for? ‘Shark Tank’ is hosting a casting call on Thursday.
Of the 10 highest-grossing films of 2017, six were superhero movies, one was another “Star Wars” and one was a live-action remake of a Disney animated tale.
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