The Buffalo Chronicle
Film
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MCMAHON: Film tax credit costs big bucks for no impact
BY E.J. McMAHON The billions of dollars funneled from New York’s treasury to movie and TV producers had no statistically significant impact on the industry’s employment in the Empire State through 2017,…
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‘Call the Midwife’
BY NORBERT RUG We’ve been recently been watching Call the Midwife Sunday nights on PBS (WNED). This is a British Broadcasting Corporation drama about a team of nurse/midwives that worked in London during the late 1950s and…
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Armie Hammer packs riveting intensity in Mine, a war story set in North Africa
BY NORBERT RUG Mine was released in on April 7, 2017, in the United States after being released in Italy on October 6, 2016, by Eagle Pictures. It is available on Netflix In…
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The Upside features utterly likable performances
BY NORBERT RUG When Philip Lacasse, a quadriplegic billionaire, who was paralyzed from the neck down after a reckless paragliding adventure, played by Bryan Cranston employs an ex-convict Dell Scott, played by…
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Beautiful Boy tells an emotionally complicated tale of addiction
BY NORBERT RUG Beautiful Boy is centered on the two books “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction” written by David Sheff and “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines” by Nic…
