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If you watch TV programs from the late 1960s and 1970s, the name Raquel Welch continually gets mentioned by all manner of characters as the most prominent va-va-voom sex symbol of that era. Welch was a phenomenon, and her image was based on a lot of publicity and pin-up posters of her in “One Million…

Berlinale is back, and it seems primed to retake its position as the largest public film festival in the world. The Berlin film festival, founded in 1951, has grown over the last seven decades into a massive event showcasing hundreds of films from around the globe. The prestigious Golden Bear awarded to the winner of…

ABC’s “The Company You Keep” is surprisingly good, even though the standard plot points and cliched opening moments had me worried I was watching a dud. The drama starts with Milo Ventimiglia’s Charlie Nicoletti in the middle of a high-stakes deal, completed with the help of his fawning fiancé (Abigail Spencer). It all turns out to…

Even if he had essayed the role 30 or 40 years ago, 70-year-old Liam Neeson would make an odd fit for Philip Marlowe. Raymond Chandler’s L.A. detective, whatever his disposition (and it was frequently not great), was capable of cutting a sprightly figure. This was true in Chandler’s novels and true of most of the…