We didn’t want to let February pass without acknowledging Black History Month. So I watched a new movie called “Judas and the Black Messiah.” …
My ol’ pal Bill Burkett, a noted science fiction writer, asked why I’ve never offered a list of the Top 10 time travel movies. “It’s about tim…
My ol’ pal Bill Burkett, a noted science fiction writer, asked why I’ve never offered a list of the Top 10 time travel movies. “It’s about tim…
In 1932, director Todd Browning was hired to make a movie based on a short story called “Spurs.” It was told of “a love triangle among a wealt…
The new documentary “Code of Freaks” got us thinking about movies featuring characters with disabilities. I’ve always said if you want to win …
This week we reviewed “My Rembrandt,” a documentary about a few elite collectors who own a Rembrandt. Since we can’t afford an actual painting…
I once bought an etching by Sir Francis Seymour Haden for $15 at a small antique shop in the Caribbean. The owner had just returned from a buy…
There’s a new Denzel Washington movie, debuting simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. That’s Warner Bros. new COVID-19 strategy, a distri…
With his constant money problems, actor Nicholas Cage has done a lot of so-so movies just for the quick bucks. This led one of our readers to …
The Sundance Film Festival was named after Robert Redford’s character from the film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” when Redford’s Sundan…
Entertainment comes in many forms, so we try to mix up our reviews, covering a carousel of genres — dramas, blockbusters, documentaries, indie…
According to Forbes, Ryan Reynolds was the second-highest paid actors in 2020. Maybe that’s how he could afford to buy a telecom company (alth…
I had hesitated reviewing “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” because it was the last film of Chadwick Boseman and I worried that the film itself woul…
OK, I have to do it — review “Wonder Woman 1984.” After all, it’s a $200-million movie in a year where few big-bucks movies were released. And…
This has been a crazy year for movies. Theaters closed down. Big tentpole films delayed. Streaming video becoming a viable movie debut platform.
What’s in a name? My movie pal Sheldon Davidson tells us.
We haven’t seen many Westerns from Hollywood in the last decade or so.
Jingle bells. Jingle bells. It’s that time of year again — Christmas! A colorful swirl of sugar plums and light-strung fir trees and flying re…
While most critics were watching this season’s big tentpole movies — Tom Hanks in “News of the World” and Gal Gadot in “Wonder Woman 1984” — I…
Words matter. That’s why I own a Webster’s Dictionary and a Roget’s Thesaurus. Also, at one point in my career, I got to oversee the publicati…
This week’s review of “The Professor and the Madman” called it “one of the best movies you have never seen!” So we went looking for more.
Ben Mankiewicz is one of the hosts on Turner Classic Movies. He has a good pedigree when it comes to films. His grandfather was Herman Jacob M…
The new movie “Mank” tells the story of Hollywood screenwriter Herbert J. Mankiewicz. Known as Mank for short, he wrote the script for “Citize…
I grew up in Appalachia, so I know something about hillbillies. I guess you could say I am one. My wife affectionately calls me her Renaissanc…
Yup, I was born in Appalachia, so you could call me a hillbilly. I don’t take it as a pejorative term; merely a descriptor of the location whe…
We’ve looked at the top 10 tallest actor and the top 10 smallest actors. My movie buddy Sheldon Davidson has looked at the physicality of Holl…
As a young man I had a rebellious streak. I was a regular reader of “The Realist,” a satiric tabloid published by Paul Krassner, one of the fo…
Queen’s Gambit is a tricky chess move in which a sacrifice of the queen’s bishop’s pawn is offered. It’s an attack that puts constant pressure…