Stephen Schaefer
Film Critic and Entertainment Writer at Boston Herald
Contributing Writer at Hartford Courant
Film critic, entertainment writer, movie mad
Articles
-
1 week ago |
bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
While Andy Warhol remains among the art world’s most celebrated superstars, best-selling biographer Laurence Leamer in his latest book uncovers the decidedly dark side of Warhol’s rise to ‘60s fame. It was Warhol’s scandalous relationships with 10 privileged women he anointed as his “superstars,” most famously with doomed “It Girl” Edie Sedgwick, that secured his popstar status.
-
1 week ago |
bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
As “Poker Face” launches Season 2 Thursday with three episodes on Peacock, Natasha Lyonne knows this scores as a significant career highlight. Lyonne, at 46, can reflect on her start as a child on “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” and comebacks with the hit series “Orange is the New Black” and “Russian Doll.”In the weekly comedic mysteries of “Poker Face” she’s Charlie, who has the ability to tell when people are lying.
-
1 week ago |
bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
A true passion project for Wyatt Russell, “Broke” chronicles never-say-die rodeo rider True Brandywine’s coming to grips with his life choices. How long, his farming father (Dennis Quaid) wonders, can True continue to abuse himself as a bronco-busting cowboy? What’s ultimately the point in sticking to this dead-end dream? Those were questions Russell, as both executive producer and star, had asked himself before any camera rolled. “The script was written by Carlyle Eubank.
-
1 week ago |
bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
There’s a sense that the Summer of ’25 could be a scorcher at the box office, buoyed by a pair of gigantic, unexpected hits. “The Minecraft Movie” is turning into a billion dollar franchise, the mightiest hit of the year, while the just-opened “Sinners” has found an audience amid rapturous reviews. Believing that hits beget more hits, optimism reigns for an ambitious slate of big-screen entertainment. Here, a selective list of what’s coming.
-
1 week ago |
bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
A French literary classic, “Bonjour Tristesse” (translates as “Hello Sadness”) was a publishing sensation in 1954 with its wise beyond her years 18-year-old author Francoise Sagan. This week, yet another film version arrives with its twisted study of a teenager, her widower father (Denmark’s Claes Bang), his mistress and a family friend gathered for a steamy summer in their spectacular Cote d’Azur digs.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 267
- Tweets
- 2K
- DMs Open
- No
She can run but she can't hide. A bloody never-ending nightmare #RunSweetheartRun has beleaguered Cherie (#EllaBalinska) terrified & barefoot racing thru the night from #PilouAsbaek's sociopathic sadist in #ShanaFeste's horrifying feminist-tinged tale https://t.co/xUlVIoRlbI
Denmark's #PilouAsbaek knows that in Hollywood he will forever be the villain, as he amply etches in the kinetic horror outing #RunSweetheartRun. 'Villains,' he says, having played them in #GameofThrones & #Samaritan, 'are so much more fun than heroes.' https://t.co/76vA1RIXFT
#HenrySelick reunites #KeeganMichaelKey & #JordanPeele as 2 demons in his mighty stop motion perfect 4 Halloween wild ride of a movie #WendellandWild, his 1st in 13 years! It was #Peele who suggested their star be Kat (#LyricRoss), a young woman of color. https://t.co/7hA6UYcKha