Ben Affleck made a confident and compelling directorial debut with Gone Baby Gone (2007), his adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s mystery novel about a pair of young private detectives (Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan) hired to look for the missing daughter of a junkie mother (Amy Ryan, who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance). It’s […]
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‘Argo’ – a stranger than fiction rescue tale on HBO Max
Winner of the 2013 Academy Award for best picture, Argo (2012) is also the name of a fake movie and a real-life rescue stranger-than-fiction mission to rescue the six Americans who escaped the U.S. Embassy in Iran when it was stormed in 1980. Ben Affleck directs (it’s his third film behind the camera) and takes […]
Watch This! ‘Bosch: Season 3’ coming to Amazon Prime
Titus Welliver is back as LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in the Amazon Original Series based on the novels of Michael Connelly. From the press release: In season three, based on Connelly’s best-selling novels “The Black Echo” and “A Darkness More than Night,” Bosch’s teenage daughter, Maddie, has come to live with him and ushered into […]
‘Bosch: Season 2’ – L.A. crime fiction on Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime is still playing catch-up with Netflix when it comes to original series, especially those that strike a chord with audiences or, better yet, become part of the popular culture conversation. Bosch, based on the novels by Michael Connelly and starring Titus Welliver as LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, isn’t quite at that level but […]
Watch This! ‘Bosch: Season Two’ premieres on Amazon in March
Based on the novels by Michael Connelly, the Amazon original series Bosch launched early in 2015. Starring Titus Welliver, a superb character actor in his first leading role, it premiered to good reviews and great audience response, becoming one of the first hits for Amazon Studios, and a second season was ordered. Bosch: Season Two […]
‘Bosch’ on Amazon Prime
Bosch is an original series based on the novels by Michael Connelly and starring Titus Welliver as LAPD homicide detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch. 10 episodes now available to Amazon Prime members.