Jake Coyle May 05, 2021 - 11:47 AM
A sleepy and aimless stab at something earnestly âfeel-good, âHere Today is a wasted pairing of Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish that juggles dementia, grief and family squabbles about as adeptly as a daytime soap.
âHere Today,â which opens in theatres Friday, is genial and gentle enough to make it mildly restive. It is, in scenes around leafy Brooklyn Heights, at least leisurely. The film, written by Alan Zweibel and Crystal and based on a short story by Zweibel, is Crystal s first time directing in 20 years â since the Roger Maris HBO film â61(asterisk). That, a Yankee story, was more in Crystal s wheelhouse. The tones here, though, are more ambitious and out of reach for the limp âHere Today.â
Review: Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish in Here Today
by Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
Posted May 5, 2021 2:47 pm EDT
Last Updated May 5, 2021 at 2:58 pm EDT
This image released by Sony Pictures shows Tiffany Haddish, center, in a scene from Here Today. (Cara Howe/Sony Pictures via AP)
A sleepy and aimless stab at something earnestly “feel-good,” “Here Today” is a wasted pairing of Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish that juggles dementia, grief and family squabbles about as adeptly as a daytime soap.
“Here Today,” which opens in theatres Friday, is genial and gentle enough to make it mildly restive. It is, in scenes around leafy Brooklyn Heights, at least leisurely. The film, written by Alan Zweibel and Crystal and based on a short story by Zweibel, is Crystal’s first time directing in 20 years since the Roger Maris HBO film “61(asterisk).” That, a Yankee story, was more in Crystal’s wheelhouse. The tones here, though, are more ambitious and out of
Actor Billy Crystal s new comedy Here Today releases Friday
Billy Crystal’s new comedy ‘Here Today’
Comedy legend Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish star in the new film HERE TODAY, which hits theaters on Friday.
CHICAGO - Comedy legend Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish star in the new film Here Today, which hits theaters on Friday.
Crystal also directs the film – and when FOX 32 Entertainment Reporter Jake Hamilton asked him if he ever considered directing any of his past classics – as it turns out, Crystal has been thinking a lot about them lately, as 2021 is a big anniversary year for his career.
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Garrett Michael Van Wyk, 85, passed away of natural causes on April 24, 2021, at his home in Santa Barbara. Magnanimity, or greatness of soul, reflects well the 85 larger-than-life years Garrett Michael Van Wyk graced this earth.
Born Aug. 4, 1935 in Bismarck, North Dakota, Garry would soon be hurling fastballs at Roger Maris in Fargo with the American Legion, pushing the aerobatic limits of the T-28 Trojan in Naval flight training over the Florida coast, and assembling the Pacific fleet at sea from inside the USS Hancock.
His eyes would sometimes glisten as he’d describe the reward for his all-night navigational work: witnessing the convergence of the planet’s greatest nuclear task force, the U.S. Pacific fleet, silhouetted against the morning dawn. “The call-sign was ‘Rampage.’ ” he would recall. “I loved our call-sign.”
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In a report by Bloomberg, e-commerce data company Edge by Ascential says within four years consumers will purchase $632 billion worth of goods from Amazon, compared to $532 billion at Walmart. This is where the caveat is needed.