Randy Myers

Jan 16, 2025 | eastbaytimes.com | Randy Myers

"Severance" fans, go ahead and breathe a huge sigh of relief. After an interminable wait (nearly three years), Apple TV+'s ingenious mind-blower of a series returns and it's just as brilliant as in its first season. Its return ups the ante on the sinister goings while it strategically meting out juicy tidbits and social commentary surrounding a seemingly evil corporation.

Jan 9, 2025 | eastbaytimes.com | Randy Myers

A team of sports broadcasters pulled into a life-or-death hostage crisis. A fast-livin' Brit singer portrayed as a chimp. An actor who's a devoted malcontent who lashes out at everyone she meets. They are a few of the intriguing characters (and one simian) you'll meet this week on movie screens. Here's why you should make their acquaintance.

Jan 8, 2025 | eastbaytimes.com | Randy Myers

Brady Corbet's audacious decades-spanning epic (it clocks in around 3 hours, 45 minutes and includes a 15-minute intermission) is a stunner to behold, a meticulously crafted piece of cinematic finery that is filmed in glorious VistaVision and is something you gawk at in the same manner that a tourist does when seeing Brutalist architect Le Corbusier's influential, iconic structure "Unité d'Habitation" in France for the first time.

Jan 7, 2025 | eastbaytimes.com | Randy Myers

Everything old is new again in 2025, after what was a darned good year for movies in 2024. Just consider the sequels, reboots and reimaginings heading to theaters this year:"Guardians of the Galaxy" whiz James Gunn gives audiences another update of "Superman" (July 10) with a dashing Clark Kent (David Corenswet), a hip Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) and a menacing Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult). Disney de-animates (sort of) "Snow White" (March 21) with Rachel Zegler whistling a happy tune.

Dec 31, 2024 | eastbaytimes.com | Randy Myers

A glorious adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic "Count of Monte Crisco": hits Bay Area movie screens this week. And should you want to stay home after ringing in 2025, turn to Netflix for the gobble-it-all-down thriller series "Missing You."Oh, and Wallace & Gromit are back!Here's our roundup. "The Count of Monte Cristo": Alexandre Dumas' epic classic remains one of literature's finest revenge tales and is executed so well that it has led to numerous film versions - some good, some not.