My Favorite Movies: Groundhog Day
Not many movies can pull double duty. Excelling at one thing is hard enough. But the late Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day is a comedy-fantasy that finds the perfect harmony between the […]
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Double Feature: The Cure for Blindness
Of the film pairs I’ve chosen to lasso together for these “Double Feature” posts, this is one of the more improbable. At first glance, the link between these movies is […]
Both Versions: Oklahoma!
In the 1950s, many strategies were unleashed to woo Americans away from their shiny new television sets and back to the movie house. What united them was the desire to […]
Caped Wonder, Winged Freak: A Superman/Batman Postmortem
Superhero movies have, over the course of seventy-odd years, blown up like a balloon. With each stage of development, from serials to television to early blockbusters to post-9/11 tentpoles, the budgets […]
Geppetto's Clocks 