An inquiry into Val Kilmer, his films, his death, and his reputation.

A short tour of my book collection

A sense of Shakespeare on Film

Another in the on-again/off-again series "Lost Classics," an examination of Susan Stroman's movie musical version of THE PRODUCERS.

A new essay from your resident contrarian.

David Lynch. Artist. David Lynch was an artist from Missoula, Montana. He wrote and directed the films Inland Empire ,  Mulholland Drive...

There are a myriad number of stories of great writers being burned by Hollywood. At the beginning of the sound age, dramatists of note...

*** out of **** On a talk show in the mid-‘70s, Orson Welles was asked who was the finest American filmmaker of that moment. His...

I must admit I’m late having an interest in the work of Alfred Hitchcock. Perhaps the most famous (along with Chaplin) of all British...

Greetings, readers! I hope you all had a nice holiday season and are as ready for the New Year as I am. 2024 was both challenging and...

I am significantly less proud of this list —not because it's not a good list or basically a reflection of my opinion, but just because...

I had already planned for this year's penultimate blog piece to cover the best 100 films of 2010-2019, so I thought I would offer my list...

** ½ out of **** The mid-1970s to early-1980s were an interesting time in movie history for a variety of reasons. On the one hand, the...

Note: This is not meant to be a criticism of the entirety of the Me Too movement, but one story of those who exploited it for...

A version of this list appears in my collection Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It): Criticism/Humor/Non-Fiction . Click the link to...

***1/2 out of **** It was completely by accident that I saw  It Ends with Us . In a confusing back-and-forth with my fellow moviegoer, I...

A version of this list appears in my collection Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It): Criticism/Humor/Non-Fiction . Click the link to...

Two versions of this list appear in my collection Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It): Criticism/Humor/Non-Fiction . Click the link...

A version of this list appears in my collection Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It): Criticism/Humor/Non-Fiction . Click the link to...

Searching for something to watch this last weekend, I stumbled upon a movie that loomed large in my mind as a kid while, when it...