My Most Anticipated 2020 Movies
Scanning the horizon for next year’s crop of movies yields the usual mix of excitement and despair. Some things haven’t changed much; franchise sequels continue to suck most of the […]
Scanning the horizon for next year’s crop of movies yields the usual mix of excitement and despair. Some things haven’t changed much; franchise sequels continue to suck most of the […]
It’s Oscar nominations morning once again, and the big story, from a personal standpoint, is that I’ve actually seen the movies this year! No more Well, I’ve seen two Best […]
The Introduction It was a full ten years from this movie’s original release before I finally sat down and watched it beginning to end. Catching up with it was a […]
Steven Spielberg’s pivotal status in film history can be pretty well summed up by the example of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, his second major blockbuster. A lifelong passion project, […]
I hadn’t seen this one in something like five years; the plan was to put off writing about it for this blog until the Blu-ray release, which only happened this […]
Checking in with last year’s list, I find that things turned out about as well as could be expected. Of the five movies I’ve seen to date, my least favorite […]
There are two equal and opposing thoughts rising in me as I contemplate my fourth annual “most anticipated movies” list. First is that 2015 looks really exciting. Each of the […]
Here are two films about World War II that approach the conflict from unusual vantage points. No Normandy, no Pearl Harbor, no Iwo Jima (neither movie is about America, after […]
I’ve been making and remaking this list for ten years now, and I’ve been sharing it with the world for three. These accompanying blog posts make for a convenient “year-in-review,” […]
I’ve selected seven of the most interesting online articles I shared on Facebook in August and September of this year. Cited below are excerpts that spell out the gist of […]