http://www.recordnet.com The latest headlines from the recordnet.com en-us Copyright 2020 San Joaquin Media Group http://www.recordnet.com/news/20200814/amc-to-offer-15-cent-tickets-on-first-day-of-reopening-thursday http://www.recordnet.com/news/20200814/amc-to-offer-15-cent-tickets-on-first-day-of-reopening-thursday NEW YORK — AMC Theatres, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, will reopen in the U.S. on Aug. 20 with retro ticket prices of 15 cents per movie. Fri, 14 Aug 2020 20:05:33 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200814/movie-review-good-time-with-good-guys-bad-guys-and-super-powers-in-streets-of-new-orleans http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200814/movie-review-good-time-with-good-guys-bad-guys-and-super-powers-in-streets-of-new-orleans You don’t have to wait very long for things to get cooking in this engaging thriller about an illicit drug that can bring out the innate super power in each of us ... and how easy it would be to use that drug or those powers for all the wrong... Fri, 14 Aug 2020 06:51:51 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200813/thomas-column-quiz-famous-movie-and-television-numbers http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200813/thomas-column-quiz-famous-movie-and-television-numbers How well do you know your classic movies and television shows? Listed below are 15 famous numbers that appeared in well-known films or TV series. Can you identify the movie or television show? (Answers are below)1. 1313 Mockingbird Lane Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:20:56 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200812/movie-review-sputnik-brings-its-ideas-of-alien-creatures-down-to-earth http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200812/movie-review-sputnik-brings-its-ideas-of-alien-creatures-down-to-earth If you don’t realize, from the moment you see and hear him - he has steely eyes and a smooth, basso voice - who the villain here is ... if you can’t immediately figure out what organization - they wear uniforms - is responsible for... Wed, 12 Aug 2020 09:26:48 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200810/movie-review-restored-jazz-on-summers-day-still-guarantees-hot-time http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200810/movie-review-restored-jazz-on-summers-day-still-guarantees-hot-time Released in the U.S. to glowing reviews in March 1960, “Jazz on a Summer’s Day,” the 85-minute film made at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, boldly breaks many “rules” of documentaries: There’s no story at... Mon, 10 Aug 2020 08:16:59 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200805/movie-review-in-the-tax-collector-youve-got-to-pay-to-avoid-pain http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200805/movie-review-in-the-tax-collector-youve-got-to-pay-to-avoid-pain Four words flash across the screen before this film’s opening credits: Love, Honor, Loyalty, Family. And in the first few minutes, it appears to be the story of a close-knit family - dad, mom, two kids - happy together in suburban L.A. Wed, 5 Aug 2020 14:00:00 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200805/joseph-gordon-levitt-talks-up-his-new-sci-fi-thriller-project-power http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200805/joseph-gordon-levitt-talks-up-his-new-sci-fi-thriller-project-power Though he had already been a professional actor for almost a decade, most television viewers will remember Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tommy, the youngest character (with the oldest mind) on the 1996 series “Third Rock from the Sun.” Art... Wed, 5 Aug 2020 09:29:42 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200805/movie-review-made-in-italy-is-brimming-with-tuscan-charm http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200805/movie-review-made-in-italy-is-brimming-with-tuscan-charm This is not actor James D’Arcy’s first encounter with writing and directing a film. He had that experience a few years ago with an oddball comic short titled “Chicken/Egg,” which starred Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, then in his... Tue, 4 Aug 2020 23:01:00 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200803/movie-review-american-entrepreneurs-find-themselves-skating-on-thin-ice-in-red-penguins http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200803/movie-review-american-entrepreneurs-find-themselves-skating-on-thin-ice-in-red-penguins The Red Army hockey team has quite a history behind it, one that can be easily summed up: Before the fall of the Soviet Union, at the tail end of 1991, they were universally known as the best hockey team in the world. Not long after the new Russian... Mon, 3 Aug 2020 07:09:20 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200730/movie-review-the-secret-dare-to-dream-is-not-very-daring http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200730/movie-review-the-secret-dare-to-dream-is-not-very-daring It’s difficult to pinpoint the proper way to describe what people are in for with “The Secret: Dare to Dream.” Anyone who read any of the spiritual, New-Agey books in the series by Australian author Rhonda Byrne - from which... Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200729/actor-james-darcy-puts-on-his-writing-hat-and-steps-behind-camera-for-made-in-italy http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200729/actor-james-darcy-puts-on-his-writing-hat-and-steps-behind-camera-for-made-in-italy There’s a method, maybe even an art, to chatting up veteran movie stars who have likely been asked the same old questions over and over. You try to avoid bringing up topics they don’t enjoy talking about. In the case of actor James... Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:13:15 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200729/movie-review-summerland-offers-up-wonderful-and-wistful-whirlwind-of-emotions http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200729/movie-review-summerland-offers-up-wonderful-and-wistful-whirlwind-of-emotions Whether or not it’s still too early in 2020 to start mentioning favorite films of the year, I’m going on record saying “Summerland” is one of my favorite films of the year. As a first-time writing and directing feature... Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200727/tinseltown-talks-column-olivia-de-havilland-1916-2020---end-of-era http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200727/tinseltown-talks-column-olivia-de-havilland-1916-2020---end-of-era It’s a sobering thought for fans of classic film. The passing of Olivia de Havilland on July 26, just weeks after her 104th birthday July 1, represents the loss of the last surviving big-screen legend from Hollywood’s “Golden... Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:46:15 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200722/glamorous-gemma-arterton-gets-bit-frumpy-in-summerland http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200722/glamorous-gemma-arterton-gets-bit-frumpy-in-summerland Movie and TV fans have different memories of their first time encountering British actress Gemma Arterton. She certainly came on with a splash in both formats a little over a decade ago. In November 2008, she was Strawberry Fields, the Bond girl in... Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:31:15 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200722/movie-review-the-rental-is-horror-film-that-veers-away-from-predictable-turns http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200722/movie-review-the-rental-is-horror-film-that-veers-away-from-predictable-turns It wouldn’t have been much of a stretch if Dave Franco was among the four actors starring in “The Rental,” which initially appears to be one of those oh-so-common horror films about people looking for a relaxing getaway in some... Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:00:00 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200721/movie-review-mostly-based-on-fact-fishermans-friends-is-pleasant-escape-from-reality http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200721/movie-review-mostly-based-on-fact-fishermans-friends-is-pleasant-escape-from-reality If ever we could use a balm from the ways of our messed up world, now is the time. One method I’ve found to escape from reality over the years is through the movies. And though trips to the cinema are on hold, our TV sets are where most... Tue, 21 Jul 2020 08:27:24 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200715/actor-dave-franco-steps-up-to-becoming-writer-director-dave-franco-with-the-rental http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200715/actor-dave-franco-steps-up-to-becoming-writer-director-dave-franco-with-the-rental For the past 15 years, Dave Franco has carved out a busy acting career made up of recurring characters on TV shows (the full-of-himself Cole Aaronson on “Scrubs” was a standout) and members of ensemble casts in feature films (the drug... Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:19:59 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200714/movie-review-jerzy-kosinskis-the-painted-bird-comes-to-grim-but-hypnotic-life-on-screen http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200714/movie-review-jerzy-kosinskis-the-painted-bird-comes-to-grim-but-hypnotic-life-on-screen I never made it all the way through Jerzy Kosinski’s bleak and brooding 1965 novel “The Painted Bird.” By the time I tried, it had won the National Book Award, and was being recommended to me by friends who read all of the... Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:29:59 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200708/movie-review-guest-of-honour-puts-peoples-motivations-above-plot-turns http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200708/movie-review-guest-of-honour-puts-peoples-motivations-above-plot-turns It’s been a long time since I discovered and fell under the spell of Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan’s films. First for me was the haunting and quietly sizzling “Exotica” (1994), then the mesmerizing and quietly... Wed, 8 Jul 2020 11:36:22 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200708/movie-review-relic-is-filled-with-fear-but-finale-fizzles-out http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200708/movie-review-relic-is-filled-with-fear-but-finale-fizzles-out The opening shot, and the sounds that accompany it, are creepy: a close-up of water slowly spilling down carpeted steps, and unnerving noises that would have fit comfortably in “Eraserhead.” Tue, 7 Jul 2020 23:01:00 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200706/movie-review-wwii-thriller-greyhound-triumphantly-takes-to-seas http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200706/movie-review-wwii-thriller-greyhound-triumphantly-takes-to-seas When the subject of novels by C.S. Forester pops up at cocktail parties, film adaptations of them that immediately come to mind are “The African Queen” (script by James Agee and John Huston) and “Sink the Bismark!”... Mon, 6 Jul 2020 09:07:38 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200701/british-actress-emily-mortimer-opens-up-about-acting-and-dips-into-realistic-psychological-horror http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200701/british-actress-emily-mortimer-opens-up-about-acting-and-dips-into-realistic-psychological-horror The interview game can be tricky. Sometimes, when a journalist is speaking with a veteran actor, the actor has heard so many versions of the same questions, their answers are given by rote. So, when someone comes along who either just likes to chat... Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:53:33 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200701/tom-hanks-talks-about-viruses-and-victories-at-sea http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200701/tom-hanks-talks-about-viruses-and-victories-at-sea It takes a while to go through the filmography of Tom Hanks, and the roles he’s chosen are as varied as imaginable: The lovelorn fruit man in “Splash,” the boy in a man’s body in “Big,” the cranky team... Wed, 1 Jul 2020 08:49:08 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200701/movie-review-war-drama-the-outpost-stirs-patriotism http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200701/movie-review-war-drama-the-outpost-stirs-patriotism Nothing stirs patriotism on the Fourth of July more than a war drama about American heroes. Films like Rod Lurie’s “The Outpost,” which tells the story of the Oct. 3, 2009, Battle of Kamdesh, where eight U.S. soldiers were... Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:01:00 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200701/movie-review-as-in-many-other-great-combat-movies-the-outpost-makes-it-clear-that-war-is-hell http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200701/movie-review-as-in-many-other-great-combat-movies-the-outpost-makes-it-clear-that-war-is-hell There are action war movies, and there are intimate war movies. And there are a rare few - like this one from director Rod Lurie, based on Jake Tapper’s 2012 non-fiction book “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor” -... Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:01:00 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200630/movie-review-netflix-doc-athlete-a-exposes-abuse-scandal-usa-gymnastics http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200630/movie-review-netflix-doc-athlete-a-exposes-abuse-scandal-usa-gymnastics In the more than 25 years of the ESPY Awards, I can honestly remember only two events: Jim Valvano’s wrenching farewell while staring death straight in the face in 1993; and 2018, when more than 100 survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of... Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:46:42 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200630/movie-review-the-truth-offers-pointed-look-at-mother-daughter-relationship http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200630/movie-review-the-truth-offers-pointed-look-at-mother-daughter-relationship Fabienne Dangeville (Catherine Deneuve), a past-her-prime, but still popular French film star is doing an interview at her suburban Paris home, publicizing her new tell-all memoir “The Truth.” She’s heard most of the questions... Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:55:09 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/lifestyle/20200626/former-army-man-rod-lurie-brings-his-cameras-into-midst-of-afghanistan-war-for-the-outpost http://www.recordnet.com/lifestyle/20200626/former-army-man-rod-lurie-brings-his-cameras-into-midst-of-afghanistan-war-for-the-outpost Filmmaker Rod Lurie (“The Contender,” “Straw Dogs”) had a whole different career before he sat down to write scripts and step behind the camera to direct movies. He was a film critic, both in print - for the Greenwich... Fri, 26 Jun 2020 07:27:34 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200624/barbuto-column-skip-or-stream-7500-screened-out-tommaso-wrong-missy http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200624/barbuto-column-skip-or-stream-7500-screened-out-tommaso-wrong-missy This week’s foursome features a tense thriller, a scary documentary, an artsy character study and a mindless comedy. Skip or stream? Read and find out. Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:12:54 -0400 http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200624/movie-review-jon-stewarts-political-comedy-irresistible-falls-flat http://www.recordnet.com/entertainment/20200624/movie-review-jon-stewarts-political-comedy-irresistible-falls-flat Jon Stewart, bless his liberal heart, certainly means well with his initiative to reform the body politic through the ironically titled “Irresistible.” But the message is likely to fall upon deaf ears and sleepy eyes. I don’t... Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:56:03 -0400