After the marathon Monday, I finished my 2015 Festival with three films featuring probably the biggest stars of my fest. Spotlight Like England is renowned for making drawing room dramas (and sometimes comedies), Americans make good newspaper procedurals where journalists are hunting bad things done by bad people, which is being covered up by the […]

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So, it’s been a busy year for your narrator, so I’m going to take a little time off. But before I go, one final couple of thoughts: One of the major sports networks says that the Chicago Bears are going to be the worst team in the NFL, projecting out to 3-13, last in the […]

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I spend too much time on Facebook; I like to see what people are saying. I shame memes and stories that I like; I comment on a few. Sometimes I want to respond to a story but then I decide that a fuller discussion is warranted. This is one of those times. There was an […]

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Now that we have finished with the Top 10 of the unsung comic adaptations, let’s turn our attention to the best of recent years. In terms of time, the forerunners of today’s comic film explosion – Tim Burton’s “Batman,” Richard Lester’s “Superman,” Lester and Richard Donner’s “Superman II” and John Milius’ “Conan The Barbarian are […]

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Over the weekend, one of the movie media links that I like on Facebook published an article about that author’s guilty pleasures – movies that the world either forgot about or considered bad that the writer actually enjoyed. At first, I was going to share the link and put in my own films, but I […]

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I haven’t written much here on the Bill Cosby saga, mostly because there’s very little that I felt I could add. I never doubted the women at all; many of them were telling their stories with no financial upside and no possibility of criminal charges because the statue of limitations had past. Cosby, always most […]

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The most popular horse race in the United States is the Kentucky Derby. People watch the race for many reasons: a harbinger of spring; the hats and fashions; and of course, the race. I think people watch it out of tradition. I avoid the hours of pre-race banter (much as I avoid the hours of […]

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