I wrote this blog for Night Owl TV and it first appeared on their site on November 29, 2017. A link to that post and other Night Owl TV material can be found here. Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood in Miracle on 34th Street …
Category: Reviews
Top 5 Reasons Mary Poppins Was the Top Musical of 1964
I initially wrote this blog for nightowltv.com and it first appeared on November 2, 2017. Click the link for more from them. 1964 was a good year for cinema. Goldfinger, arguably the greatest James Bond film of all time, was released during the year, as were several other classics and borderline classics like A Fistful …
Top 5 Favorite Shirley MacLaine Films
I initially wrote this blog for nightowltv.com and it first appeared on October 18, 2017. Click the link for more from them. October 18, 2017 …
My Top-7 Film Noir
I originally wrote this blog for Night Owl TV as a part of their Classic Film Zone. I’m reprinting it here with their permission. For more from Night Owl TV click here. Film Noir is one of the most misunderstood genres of cinema. It’s so misunderstood that its referred to as a genre, when it …
Logan Addendum
I was thinking more about Logan over the weekend and chatting with my teenage daughter about it after she saw it, and something occurred to me that I hadn’t thought of before. I posted here about how much I liked the film, and my overall opinion of it hasn’t changed, but I did come to realize …
Logan: The X-Men Go Dark
I saw Logan over the weekend and I was thoroughly impressed. I should start of by saying that I am not a huge fan of the X-Men movies. I loved the animated series in the 90’s and I was also a fan of the comic books, but I found the films to be overly polished and generic. The …
My Top Five Horror Movies of All Time
I know that Halloween was a few of days ago, but some of us actually have kids and families and actually spend Halloween doing Halloween things. As I was doing all of those Halloween things and as I’ve been stuffing myself with left over candy for the past couple of days, I started thinking about …
A Cool Script Analysis of The Shining
Check out this link for an in depth review of what makes this film so effective.
A New Series From Monument Scripts
We have a new series that will be starting up in the next couple of days called BSsentials. These will be posts centered around films that I feel are essential viewing. Many of these films will be classics, but many will not be. There will be goofy comedies on the list as well as quirky …
PIXAR Movies from Best to Worst
With Finding Dory set to be the latest PIXAR Animation Studios latest release next week, now seems like a good time to reflect on their past films and rank them from best to worst. Over the past two decades PIXAR Animation Studios has become the number one producer of animated films. They’ve dominated the Oscars …