https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pgVF1aRTCs Go ahead, call me Mr. Scrooge. I deserve it. Of all the Charlie Chaplin films I could have picked to look at this month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8pAy5Yak3U A saviour’s a nuisance to live with at home —Joan Baez, “Winds of the Old Days” The truth is out there….but what is it

Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything (1989) might be rated as unfit for parental viewing. After all, parents are probably paranoid enough as it is. They don’t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yo8bvg0MAg “…And the 1992 Academy Award for Best Architecture in a Leading Role goes to….the extraordinary classical Chinese Estate featured in Raise the Red Lantern!!

Devlin (Gary Grant): Don’t you need a coat? Alicia (Ingrid Bergman): You’ll do. “I don’t get all this talk about chicken.” –screenwriter Ben Hecht to

This month’s review is a guilty pleasure. Like a large chocolate fudge sundae. But more violent. If you considered movies such as Alien, The Terminator,

I wanted to write this review of Jeremiah Chechik’s Benny & Joon even before I saw the film. I’d heard from someone that actor Johnny

One of my most enduring memories of being a child in elementary school centers around the upright piano in the grade 5/6 classroom. In a

“I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.” —Miles Davis Fans of modem jazz owe the subject of this month’s review a

I’ve said it before. Who needs special effects when you’ve got the real world? Nothing is more spectacular than the natural world we’re born into,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udVcEcGYw-Q Also worth checking out is Lang’s Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922). There’s a high quality copy on YouTube, but with German intertitle cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuJRs9xvkPg

“…if we accept objective existence of the reflection— reflecting as it is given, we are obliged to conceive a mode of being different from that