Judy Sloane has worked as an entertainment journalist for over 20 years and is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America and the TV Critics Association.
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features Generally acknowledged by movie historians as one of the most scary ghost films ever produced, “The Haunting” was shot in Britain in the autumn of 1962 and has gone on to become a cult classic. Based on Shirley Jackson’s 1958 novel The Haunting of Hill House, the [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD-Based on Ira Levin’s best-selling Science Fiction novel, “The Stepford Wives” spotlights the sinister Men’s Association, replacing their wives with identical-looking mindless robots, and in 1975 it created a feminist uproar. The movie premiered a [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD-In 1967 at the height of the Civil Rights movement in America, a thoughtful movie about the volatile relationship between a black homicide detective, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) and a white bigoted police chief, Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) swept the [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD-CBS’s popular sitcom “The Neighborhood” premiered on October 1, 2018, spotlighting a friendly white Midwestern family, Dave and Gemma Johnson (Max Greenfield and Beth Behrs) and their young son Grover (Hank Greenspan) moving into a predominantly [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD-CBS’ new action comedy “True Lies” is inspired by James Cameron’s 1994 motion picture of the same name starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis which, in turn, was based on the 1991 French comedy “La Totale!” In CBS’ version, Steve How [...]