Despite years of rumors and speculation, Las Vegas never got its own screaming, slapping, Champagne-flinging “Housewives” spinoff. Instead, we’re getting the screamier, slappier, Champagne-flingier “Hotwives” spinoff.
Christopher Lawrence
“Irrational Man” continues a summer of miscastings for the talented, likable actress. But while Woody Allen’s latest plays to exactly zero of Stone’s strengths, unlike Crowe, he at least had the good sense to not ask her to play a quarter-Hawaiian, quarter-Chinese woman named Allison Ng.
Subtlety was never CineVegas’ forte. Exclusive parties, star-studded red carpets and an eclectic mix of films, sure. Taking over the Palms at the height of its Palms-iness, CineVegas created an atmosphere where George Clooney could fly in for a premiere and leave with a yearlong relationship with a cocktail server.
What did Tom Cruise ever do to the “Mission: Impossible” movies? They’ve already hung him by his fingertips from the rock faces of Utah’s Dead Horse Point and left him dangling high above the streets of Dubai outside the world’s tallest building
Ethan Hunt is the LeBron James of action heroes: He gets the job done no matter how much dead weight is on his team.
Jake Gyllenhaal is tremendous in the boxing tale “Southpaw.” The movie? Not so much. It’s the best performance I’ve seen in a bad movie since Julianne Moore won an Oscar for “Still Alice.”
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