At a time when cops are under fire — from Derek Chauvin to police officers who can’t tell a pistol from a Taser — I wanted to step back and re…
Recently we looked at TV programs that made bad movies. This week let’s list some books that made great movies.
Recently we looked at TV programs that made bad movies. This week let’s list some books that made great movies.
I love that old movie “An Affair to Remember,” where a couple meet and fall in love. They agree to reunite on top of the Empire State Building…
Well, this year’s Academy Awards came and went this past Sunday night. Did your favorites win?
Move over, John Wick. Meet Nobody, an unassuming family man who is more than he seems. When he acts like a wimp during a home invasion, his fa…
Mystery writer Steve McMillan suggested we do a list of TV shows that were made into bad movies. I proposed that he compile it. After all, his…
Legendary Pictures figures you have been cooped up long enough without any rock-‘em-sock-‘em blockbuster movies (read: “Transformer” movies, a…
Are you really sitting there reading this review? Or it is all a simulation like in “The Matrix”?
Several years ago a group announced that it was going to launch a Key West Film Festival. People were skeptical. Now, all these years later, t…
The new blockbuster movie “Godzilla vs. Kong” got me thinking back to those frightening kaiju monster movies of the past. I traumatized my you…
Recently, we looked at movie endings. Now let’s turn things around and start at the beginning. Here are my top 10 favorite movie opening lines:
What young person did not read “The Catcher in the Rye,” the 1951 novel that gave us Holden Caulfield, an icon of teenage rebellion. We all id…
This is the time of year that movie critics start ruminating over the year’s Academy Award nominees, in search of a prediction.
We’ve taken a couple of looks at movies with iconic endings — but there are too many to stop just yet. So here’s another list of 10 movies tha…
Recently we looked at Quora’s Top 10 Movie Endings. Everybody seemed to agree with “Planet of the Apes,” that scene with Charlton Heston comin…
If you wait for the end credits of “Coming 2 America,” the sequel to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 comedy “Coming to America,” you will see a special th…
Little did you know you were speaking Japanese when sending out texts and emails that contain those little smiley faces. Emoji is actually a J…
Let’s start off by saying my own list of favorite movie endings would be different. Maybe yours would too. But we will start the discussion by…
Noël Coward was a British playwright known for his wit. His 1941 play “Blithe Spirit” was a prime example. A fantasy comedy about a man and hi…
Movie buff Brian Pittman challenged one of our entries in the recent list of “Top 10 time travel movies.” He writes, “I love your work and you…
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…
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…
No, you didn’t read this column last week. That was a list of the Top 10 (plus) movies that actor Nicolas Cage did not make, turning the roles…