A Star Is Born
Who would have guessed that A Star Is Born (2018), remade for a third time, would connect with audiences today. Not that the story isn’t classic Hollywood “weepy” gold or… Read more »
The House Of Yes
Parker Posey is one of my favorite actresses working in film today. Her performances in even the most mundane and mediocre films are layered with character and in many cases… Read more »
The Schoolgirl Report Soundtrack
Collecting movie soundtracks is a pastime shared by both film and music aficionados alike. It’s true that for any collector it is a rare thrill to find something obscure or… Read more »
The Tarnished Angels
Douglas Sirk’s style is unmistakable. In the last 70 some years his films have become synonymous with the America of the nuclear age. I have written before about how Sirk… Read more »
Lili
Lili is one of those anomalous films that was ostensibly made for children or at least young adults, like The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr.T (1953), during the latter days of… Read more »
(nostalgia)
It’s interesting to consider how the depiction of memory has changed since the 19th century. Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life Of Charlotte Bronte, James Boswell’s The Life Of Samuel Johnson and… Read more »
Real Life
Consider the films of Woody Allen; he is a filmmaker who expresses, in his efforts toward self-awareness, the importance of his own intellectual credentials and his own filmic knowledge in… Read more »
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower was one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2012 as well as one of the most popular with audiences. It is a film… Read more »
The Jungle Book
This review was first published during the initial release of this film. I saw The Jungle Book with my mother and brother about a week and a half after my… Read more »
Trapeze
Long before the cinema existed there was the circus, and the circus was one of the most popular entertainments in the world. So it is no surprise that the circus… Read more »
