Last week, movie pal Ben Volpian offered us a list of his Top 10 best movied, in response to a previous column enumerating the selections by R…
“There are few better ways to spend a cloudy, dull Sunday afternoon than sitting in the cinema tucking in to a nice comforting slice of ‘Downt…
“There are few better ways to spend a cloudy, dull Sunday afternoon than sitting in the cinema tucking in to a nice comforting slice of ‘Downt…
My recent updated look at the Top 10 Best Movies drew lots of reader response. Everyone has contenders, it would seem. And the Rotten Tomatoes…
Drew Barrymore just received a Power of Women Award. You probably watch her highly-touted talk show. Or remember her as the little girl in the…
People are always asking me, “What are the best movies ever made?” That’s a difficult question to answer, depending on the criteria you use. T…
As a former publisher of Marvel Comics, I know something about multiverses. If we wanted to change the history of a comic book superhero, we s…
When it comes to parallel universes and such, movies are jumping on the dimension-hopping bandwagon. The better ones? We turned to those exper…
In the just-released “The Northman,” Alexander Skarsgård plays a Viking who avenges his father’s death, a story that inspired Shakespeare to w…
Where did Shakespeare get the idea for “Hamlet?” Like many of his plays, he appropriated it from past literature. Not plagiarized, but adapted…
The new “Fantastic Beasts” movie got us thinking about movies about wizards, magicians, and such. So for this week’s Top 10 list, we turned to…
The film “Tiger Within” opens with a painting that dissolves into the face of our protagonist, a raccoon-eyed, nose-pierced young woman who ge…
My religious sister-in-law refuses to read the “Harry Potter” books or see the movies, because they are about witches. This despite my having …
Just finished adding a gaming room to my house. Along with four standalone arcade cabinets and a classic Intellivision setup, there’s an old S…
“Sonic the Hedgehog 2” raced onto movie screens this week, so we decided to look at how well other movies based on video games have done. To a…
The new “Morbius” movie adds another cinematic vampire to our list. But who are the top movie bloodsuckers?
The second annual Key West NOW Women’s Film Festival is nearing the end of its month-long run at the Tropic Cinema.
Back in 1971, the Comics Code censorship rules loosened up. This allowed vampires and other monsters to appear in comics again. Stan Lee quick…
The new Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum movie “The Lost City” got us thinking about great jungle adventures. So we turned to film critic Samuel …
Remember those old romantic adventure movies like “Romancing the Stone” and “American Dreamer”? They usually involve a frustrated romance writ…
There’s this new movie about a tailor who caters to the Chicago mob. It’s called “The Outfit.” Is that a double entendre — a reference to a su…
After looking at the new movie “The Outfit” (see accompanying review), we decided to check out other movies that featured a tailor as a protag…
Judith Kerr wrote a trilogy of children’s novels called “Out of the Hitler Time” as a way of explaining to her son what her childhood was like.
Agnès Varda opened her autobiographical film by saying, “I’m playing the role of a little old lady, pleasantly plumb and talkative, telling he…
After my stint as publisher of Marvel Comics, I spent several years consulting for DC Comics. At that time DC’s headquarters was in New York C…
A version of this list appeared a few years ago, but with the release of “The Batman” starring Robert Pattinson, it’s time to look again.
Back when I was Associate Publisher of Harper’s, we had an embarrassing moment when someone inadvertently placed an ad for Benihana featuring …
After watching Peter Dinklage in “Game of Thrones,” there’s no question about his star power. And his new film “Cyrano” reaffirms it.