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...

I suppose most people have burgers and hot dogs and pools and fireworks and I enjoy all those things, but my 4th of July tradition is to...

2004 happened to be a surprising year at the movies for offbeat comedies. I’m thinking specifically of Jared & Jerusha Hess’  Napoleon...

Whenever I contemplate who America’s dramatic masters are, my answer is always Eugene O’Neill and Edward Albee. The reason for this is...

I was perhaps in my junior year of high school when the news broke that, after many years of speculation and debate, Thomas Jefferson,...

Christopher Durang was a playwright and actor from Montclair, New Jersey. He wrote the plays Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony...

This list includes my Oscar predictions for the upcoming ceremony. The choices are not necessarily who/what I think should win, but...

At one time, the Oscars were my Super Bowl. As young as sixth grade, I would watch them and dream of my own shining moment when I would...

One need only look at the output from Walt Disney Studios in the 1960s and see that, progressively, Walt was less and less interested in...

While during his lifetime, his work became more and more critically derided, there has been a resurgence of interest in American...