Latest by Jake Coyle

Published on August 1, 2025 - Page 6
Some say directing is 90% casting. In the case of Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin, it was more like 110%. The choice of Nielsen for "Police Squad...
Published on July 25, 2025 - Page 8
More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally gets a worthy...
Published on July 25, 2025 - Page 9
NEW YORK -- "Happy Gilmore" was born on the range. When Adam Sandler was growing up in New Hampshire, his father was an avid golfer. He'd often take...
Published on July 20, 2025 - Page 6
NEW YORK -- An eyeball, big, yellowish, distinctly inhuman, stares raptly between wooden slats, part of a large crate. The eye darts from side to...
Published on July 18, 2025 - Page 7
Justin Timberlake had "Trolls." Rihanna has "Smurfs." Like "Trolls," "Smurfs" gets as much mileage as it can from its pop singer-voice actor....
Published on July 11, 2025 - Page 8
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... a purple and orange shape-shifting chemical compound? Writer-director James Gunn's "Superman" was always going...
Published on July 3, 2025 - Page 20
The Idris Elba-John Cena vehicle "Heads of State" is surely the first buddy comedy about the fraying bonds of NATO. The potential collapse of the...
Published on July 2, 2025 - Page 8
NEW YORK -- If you're going to let dinosaurs run amok, it's good to have some ground rules. That's how screenwriter David Koepp saw it in penning the...
Published on July 1, 2025 - Page 15
NEW YORK -- The star of "The Friend" has the loping stride of Robert Mitchum and the droopy, melancholy eyes of Peter Lorre. He has those classic...
Published on June 27, 2025 - Page 8
The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout in Joseph Kosinski's "F1." It's a fine-tuned machine of a movie that in...