Sunday night’s game between the Bills and Ravens will be the fifth time that the last two NFL MVPs have met in Week 1 of the regular season and the vote that resulted in Bills quarterback Josh Allen taking the prize was up for conversation on Wednesday. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson looked like he was on the way to a …
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A new season is upon us, and another year of QB Index is ready for launch. In the interest of keeping it brief, I’ll explain this simply: We’re officially at the starting point for a season-long, weekly ranking of quarterbacks. This year, I’m applying a new twist by grouping signal-callers into tiers with the reminder that these are fluid. Let’s …
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The first reviews have landed for new Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, with critics largely praising the effort. The film charts the period in The Boss’s life where he recorded his sixth studio album Nebraska, with The Bear star Jeremy Allen White portraying the musician. Following the premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, the initial critics’ verdicts …
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Woody Allen, appearing as a guest on Bill Maher‘s Club Random podcast, says he’s not a “Trumper” but can attest to the president’s acting ability. “I’m one of the few people who can say he directed Trump,” Allen says. “I directed Trump in a movie.” That movie would be Allen’s 1998 Celebrity, in which Trump, playing himself, appears onscreen for …
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Woody Allen wants Donald Trump for his next movie. During a recent appearance on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, the four-time Oscar winner said Trump was “a pleasure to work with” when he appeared in his 1998 film “Celebrity,” and that he’d be happy to work with the president again if given the chance. “I’m one of the few people …
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The Venice Film Festival is running at the moment, delivering the one-two punch of new films from some of the planet’s biggest directors, as well as immediate-aftermath interviews with those same filmmakers. Sometimes, that just produces glowing softballs—the response to Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein sounds like it was a big, gory love-fest, for instance—and sometimes it produces something a little sharper. …
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TELLURIDE, Colo. — Jeremy Allen White asked all the questions any normal human being would ask when offered the chance to play Bruce Springsteen in “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.” In theaters Oct. 24, it’s a movie that examines a slice of the rock legend’s career when he was battling depression and creating 1982’s incomparable exploration of alienation “Nebraska,” a record …
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Over the past decade, there has been a deluge of big Hollywood movies about rock stars, among them 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, 2019’s Rocketman and 2022’s Elvis, each of which made a fortune at the box office and was Oscar-nominated, with Bohemian Rhapsody winning four little gold men, including best actor, and Rocketman taking home one. Those films certainly addressed dark aspects …
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Just as A Complete Unknown escaped the dreary conventionality of cradle-to-grave music biopics by surveying the nascent period in the stardom of its unknowable subject, Bob Dylan, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere makes affecting gains by focusing on the Artist as a Depressed Young Man. Which is not to say Scott Cooper’s Bruce Springsteen portrait is a downer. If you’re …
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It’s always interesting seeing movies explore the creative process, such as what Steven Spielberg did recently in The Fabelmans, or larger-scale enterprises like the Oscar-winning Amadeus. But Mozart wasn’t around to give his OK to that particular film. Bruce Springsteen, however, after turning down numerous past attempts and offers, is around to pass judgment on director-writer Scott Cooper‘s anti-biopic Springsteen: …
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