1972’s The Legend of Boggy Creek is one of the first movies that really scared me. I don’t mean a momentary cheap shock. I’m talking down-to-the-bone frightened for years. Since it was G-rated, I was five or six-years-old when my parents took me to see it. Although it seems quaintContinue Reading
It always amazes me when someone who self-identifies as a “film fan” refuses to watch a movie that’s filmed in black and white. To disavow movies simply because they “look old” is to miss out on a wide range of perspectives, history, and knowledge. Not to sound like a completeContinue Reading
As a very young man, Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) wrote a critically and financially successful novel. He has been unable to recreate that same success with a follow-up. Actually, he hasn’t even attempted a follow-up. Feeling the pressure of his creative slump and the stress it’s put on his romanticContinue Reading
After serving 2 tours of duty in Afghanistan, Alicia West (Naomie Harris) returns home to New Orleans to serve as a police officer. As she makes the rounds with her partner, she quickly learns that things have changed since she left. Not so much in her neighborhood — which remainsContinue Reading
Imagine you’re a time-traveler. It’s 1909 and you’re in Austria. You meet a young art student named Adolf in a pub. He hasn’t done anything wrong yet. But you know he will. Do you kill him and save millions of lives? Or do you let him live? This is the questionContinue Reading
If you were alive during the Cold War, you know first-hand how much the threat of nuclear war was always present. Most of us tried to put it out of our minds as much as possible but reminders of the threat were everywhere. Movies from that time period, especially theContinue Reading
When I saw that Hollywood was making a new movie about The Battle of Midway, I remembered that I’d seen that movie before. Literally. In 1976, a star-studded war movie also called Midway was released to theaters. Featuring a slew of marquee actors from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, theContinue Reading