Movies
The ads for “Hangfire” (selected theaters) suggest, somewhat irrelevantly, “Sadam Hussein, Look Out!”
Jan. 17, 1991
Television
Casting directors for a TV spinoff of the movie “Nothing in Common” had just finished looking at 520 actors who have “everything in common”--they all look like Tom Hanks.
Oct. 19, 1986
NBC’s new sitcom, “Nothing in Common,” has little in common with the appealing theatrical movie of the same name on which it’s based.
April 2, 1987
World & Nation
The presidents of Mexico, Peru and El Salvador sang his praises.
April 23, 1993
Watch Emily Watson and Paul Mescal in ‘God’s Creatures,’ Ana Lily Amirpour’s ‘Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon’ and Showtime’s Sinéad O’Connor documentary at home.
Sept. 30, 2022
Movies rarely give us the exhilarating amplitude of an old-fashioned family novel--the kind that Dickens, Zola, Balzac or Tolstoy wrote.
Feb. 26, 1988
Archives
Cinema: Edwards puts cuddling back on the bill with couple-friendly setup.
July 11, 1996
“Nothing in Common” (citywide) starts out like yet another yuppie Tom Hanks comedy--until it takes off in a surprising and unexpectedly rewarding direction.
July 30, 1986
Entertainment & Arts
On the surface, at least, comic Charlie Chaplin and gangster Bugsy Siegel had nothing in common except for a predilection for female flesh and a lust for living well.
Oct. 18, 1992
Sharing nothing in common with the short-lived 2015 TV series of the same name save for the presence of Ioan Gruffudd on both, “Forever” is an unpleasant, dramatically inert drama surrounding a Jonestown-type commune.
Sept. 24, 2015