Chuck CHUCK (2017) Starring Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Naomi Watts, Ron Perlman, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Rapaport, Morgan Spector, Pooch Hall, Wass Stevens, Megan Sikora, Melo Ludwig, Sadie Sink, Jason Jones, Catherine Corcoran, Ivan Martin, Angela Marie Roy, William Hill and John Brodeur. Screenplay by Jeff Feuerzeig and Jerry Stahl. Directed by Philippe Falardeau. Distributed by IFC Films. 98 minutes. Rated R. It makes a certain amount of sense that Chuck – a film based

Sully SULLY (2016) Starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Autumn Reeser, Holt McCallany, Mike O’Malley, Jamey Sheridan, Valerie Mahaffey, Delphi Harrington, Ahmed Lucan, Jerry Ferrara, Blake Jones, Ann Cusack, Molly Hagan, Max Adler, Jeffrey Nordling, Michael Rapaport and Katie Couric. Screenplay by Todd Komarnicki. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.  95 minutes.  Rated PG-13. It is interesting to compare Clint Eastwood’s tr

Katrina Bowden stars in TNT’s new series “Public Morals.” Katrina Bowden Taking on Public Morals by Ronald Sklar Hey, don’t make her career talk to the hand, just because she’s beautiful. At one time, Katrina Bowden may have been voted Esquire‘s Sexiest Woman Alive, and she is (so far) best known as Cerie, the vapid model/intern/Liz-Lemon foil on 30 Rock, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously and win some roles with a little meat on the bone. This is

Little Boy LITTLE BOY (2015) Starring Jakob Salvati, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin James, Ben Chaplin, Ted Levine, Abraham Benrubi, Ali Landry, Toby Huss, Eduardo Verástegui, David Ury, Candice Azzara, James DuMont, Lorna Scott and Kelly Greyson. Screenplay by Alejandro Monteverde and Pepe Portillo. Directed by Alejandro Monteverde. Distributed by Open Road Films.  100 minutes.  Rated PG-13. Little Boy is a sweet and

Joelle Carter stars in “Justified.” Joelle Carter The Ends Justify The Means by Jay S. Jacobs Joelle Carter has certainly had a wild ride in the five seasons that she has been playing southern belle Ava Crowder on FX’s acclaimed modern western Justified. When you meet a character right as she is killing her abusive husband, you wouldn’t think there would be much more the show could do with her.  However that was just the first step in the crazy, cool, violent and sexy path fo

Michael Rapaport in “The War at Home” MICHAEL RAPAPORT THE WAR ON TELEVISION by JAY S. JACOBS Michael Rapaport is one of the best color guys in show business.  It’s rare that he gets the lead role, but when a director needs a legitimate, colorful, smart working-class guy for the second or third role, they dial up Rapaport.  He has been the punch-drunk boxer who dates Mira Sorvino in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite, controversial teacher Danny Hanson on Boston Public, Will Smit