In My Own Private Idaho, a young Gus Van Sant explores existence and geographic identity through the lens of a…
#471 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966)
By the time The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly film was made in 1966, the world’s appetite for westerns…
Stranger Things (2016)
Note – spoilers abound in the links, but not the review. Netflix has been on a roll with its incredible…
#278 Roman Holiday (1953)
William Wyler’s Roman Holiday is the beginning of the career for the unknown Audrey Hepburn, noted in Schneider’s book that…
#599 Amarcord (1973)
Amarcord is one of Fellini’s later films and is a semiautobiographical sendoff to the small Italian community of his youth. The…
#723 The Big Chill (1983)
The Big Chill is Lawrence Kasdan’s sharply anti-Hollywood ensemble piece that takes a bunch of 1960s baby boomer friends, shoots…
#116 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (…Dwarves?). I watched Disney’s “The Diamond Edition” with my kids, for whatever that is…
#27 The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
A rickety film mired in legal, funding, and central errors, The Phantom of the Opera is best known for “enshrin(ing)…
Movie Posters By Me #9: Friday the 13th
Movie Posters By Me Episode Nine: Friday the 13th A seven-year-old is given the title of a film he has…
Pee Wee’s Big Holiday (2016)
Pee Wee fans have been waiting for this for… What… Thirty years now? Now, I am not one to espouse that…