The history of cinema is littered with adaptations of William Shakespeare plays. Some are very successful - Olivier’s HAMLET (1948),...

It is a fun surprise to be perusing all the streaming services available and tripping across a very entertaining film that, heretofore,...

When I first heard that Nicole Kidman (of all people) was set to play Lucille Ball in a bio-pic (of sorts), I was suspect over the...

If you ever worked on a live theater performance, whether as a performer, tech crew, make-up, costumes, box office, etc…the Netflix...

Satire is a tricky thing to get right, there is a balance between humor and pathos that must be struck in order to drive home the point....

I have to admit, I actually saw LAKE PLACID in the movie theaters when it came out in 1999. I am a huge JAWS fan and am a sucker for any...

Filmmaker Wes Anderson is an acquired taste. He is one of the most visually stunning filmmakers working today, but his films are often...

And now from the unnecessary sequels department… And, that, pretty much sums up THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS - a title that is a confession...

The good thing about travelling by plane over the Holidays is that it is an opportunity to catch up on Movies that were missed. Such is...

The newest Spiderman film, NO WAY HOME, is pretty much review proof in that there is such a strong, built-in audience for it, that it...

If I told you that I just watched a charming Holiday movie where the Narrator reminisced about a Christmas of his youth - when he was...

If the movie you are watching has a long shot of wheat blowing in the wind, then you are watching a character drama. If that same film...

The new bio-pic KING RICHARD, depicting the true life story of the unusual rise of the tennis playing Williams sisters, and the man who...

I am a huge fan of the original, 1984 Bill Murray/Dan Ackroyd/Harold Ramis GHOSTBUSTERS - so much a fan, in fact, that I devoted an...

The trouble with hearing that a film is a “shoo-in” Oscar film is that I go in with expectations and, sometimes, there is no way the film...

Around the Holidays, I always get asked to recommend a film “Good for the Entire Family”, something that the kids as well as the adults -...

There are times when there is a “Perfect Storm” of film material, performance, mood, style and execution of said material and the...

I am a “bitter-ender”, I will stay until the end of a Sporting Event or a Movie in the hopes that something interesting will happen. And,...

The interesting thing about creating a Cinematic “Universe” (like Marvel has done and others are desperately trying to do) is that...

Writer/Director Edgar Wright has developed into one of the more unique film makers working today with a stylistic look, feel and sound to...