If you didn’t see The Death of Stalin when it opened in theaters this past weekend, and judging by the box office numbers, you didn’t, then you missed a biting satire with a script that performs dialogue gymnastics and a troupe of actors who brought their A-games to the screen. This is a thoughtful and …
Category: Reviews
My Top-10 Pre-1970 Disney Animated Films
I wrote this blog for Night Owl TV and it first appeared on their site on January 18, 2018. A link to that post and other Night Owl TV material can be found here. …
My Initial Thoughts on Black Panther
I’m going to get this out of the way immediately. I liked Black Panther, but I did not love it. I would rank it high in the Marvel pantheon but it was certainly not my favorite Marvel film. I’d have to digest it a little more, but my initial ranking would put it behind Iron …
My Top-7 John Huston Films
I wrote this blog for Night Owl TV and it first appeared on their site on January 10, 2018. A link to that post and other Night Owl TV material can be found here. John Huston was one of the most important and greatest directors of the 20th Century. A two-time Oscar winner and 12-time …
Coco – A Feast for the Eyes, Ears and Heart
I am one of the few people who has been down on PIXAR films over the past decade. It could be because their first decade was so full of amazing films that their own bar was set impossibly high. Like many other studios, PIXAR also experienced their own “brain drain” as talented artists left the …
Top-5 Hepburn and Tracy Films
I wrote this blog for Night Owl TV and it first appeared on their site on December 28, 2017. A link to that post and other Night Owl TV material can be found here. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy combined to create one of the great cinematic duos of all time. All told, they made …
Movies for the 12 Days of Christmas
I wrote this blog for Night Owl TV and it first appeared on their site on December 14, 2017. A link to that post and other Night Owl TV material can be found here. “To …
Seven Things That Make Miracle on 34th Street the Prototypical Christmas Movie
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 …
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 …