A semi-serious investigation.
( Published Friday, January 2nd, 2026 @ 12:44 am )]]> Ridley Scott employed the perfect balance of narrative, cinematic imagery and adventure to build the timeless tale of a once great empire beginning its fall into the moral decay that was Rome.
( Published Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @ 5:22 pm )]]> The first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, came out in 1981. Back then, Harrison Ford was 38.
( Published Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 @ 11:49 pm )]]> Daily Wire's Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro lit up social media over his smackdown of the Oscar-winning movie, "Everything Everywhere All At Once."
( Published Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 10:53 am )]]> Major Capra was fresh from his stint in the U.S. Army Signal Corps; Colonel Stewart had just provided the U.S. Army Air Corps his best years; and these two great patriots made one great film.
( Published Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 4:47 am )]]> Future Earth after an alien invasion, and eventually Tom Cruise's character is left to pick up a good many of the broken pieces. Sounds solid enough for a decent film.
( Published Sunday, November 27th, 2022 @ 10:44 am )]]> They say love can make you a little crazy. And the movie begins by showing how 2 people are living proof of that.
( Published Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:15 am )]]> The toughest and bloodiest war ever fought on this planet was fought all over the globe in two theaters of action. This is the story about one of them -The Pacific.
( Published Sunday, March 27th, 2022 @ 5:53 pm )]]> We often hear people talk about America's Christian heritage. Usually it is in the context of some government action or judicial decision which denies this heritage.
( Published Monday, March 14th, 2022 @ 10:14 pm )]]> Filmmaker Woody Allen has often dealt with different historical periods, with ancillary interlopers, with varying degrees of success.
( Published Monday, March 14th, 2022 @ 8:14 am )]]> Since we are being honest, I must admit, I am of the age where the original film, with Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale and Frank Morgan as the Wizard, had a profound effect on me.
( Published Sunday, March 13th, 2022 @ 8:30 am )]]> "The one with the tiger. That's the better story," said the writer, who had invaded Pi Patel's space and stolen his time to recount his beautiful life story to the rest of us.
( Published Saturday, March 12th, 2022 @ 9:22 am )]]> If you haven't seen Dinesh D'Souza's latest documentary - "HILLARY'S AMERICA: The Secret History of the Democratic Party" - you won't want to miss it!! D'Souza hits a home-run!!
( Published Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @ 9:22 pm )]]> How could I have not known that Lonesome Dove would arguably be the greatest pure Western of all time?
( Published Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 6:04 am )]]> Long before there was a "Nowhere Man," from The Beatles classic album of songs "Rubber Soul," there was a "Nowhere Boy."
( Published Saturday, February 26th, 2022 @ 10:16 am )]]> Director Peter Jackson collaborates with a long deceased J.R.R. Tolkien to create a sweeping fantasy that well represents one of the greatest stories of the Twentieth Century.
( Published Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 7:17 pm )]]> Miss Dodger, the drama teacher supervising the elementary school players doing "Alice in Wonderland," described her Alice, Phoebe Lichton, as "a very special child."
( Published Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 11:38 am )]]> Beginning in August, we learned of a controversial documentary that would be released in select theatres in time for this presidential election season.
( Published Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 3:15 am )]]> "Interstellar" is a film that begs us to consider the certainty of an imminent life or death scenario with few choices, with all of them difficult, and ultimately unavoidable.
( Published Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 8:04 am )]]> But then again, growing up, I loved every episode of the Three Stooges. Yes, the Howard brothers, plus Larry Fine helped make growing up in the 1950's/60's a fairly good time.
( Published Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 @ 8:43 am )]]> "Slumdog Millionaire," is a more complex story, yet like "Rocky," it is an Hindi yarn of a young Indian boy struggling to survive, while endeavoring to salvage what grace he can scavenge, like so many crumbs from the meager table of the proletariat.
( Published Sunday, February 20th, 2022 @ 9:09 am )]]> "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" was surprisingly funny. Laughing out loud at neurotic Europeans and American Tourists is rather more humorous than considering the humor wrapped in the neurosis of Manhattan natives, which has been the staple of previous Woody Allen Movies.
( Published Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 3:46 pm )]]> While RED 2 may be your common, garden variety sequel, it is mostly just the blackest of comedies built upon the intractable foundation of a perfect farce, where interpersonal relationships really do matter.
( Published Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 8:05 pm )]]> "Burn After Reading," the latest edition in Ethan and Joel Coen's offbeat and often distinctive films: some comedies, some dramas, some from another world of intellect, was exactly what I expected - overwhelmingly eclectic.
( Published Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 2:11 am )]]> Or possibly, you may question your sanity as to why you just spent 115 minutes of your precious time to wade through some fairly disturbing images, just to catch up on what passes for a preadolescent monster posing as an innocent, precociously wise and complex character study of a "girl gone wild."
( Published Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 6:02 pm )]]>