In typically-delayed fashion, I at last saw The King's Speech. As I've pointed I can't usually watch a movie in a theatre because if people around me talk (which they almost always do now) I will kill them. Actually kill them. That's why I wait for cable… more »

Normally I do reviews of obscure old movies, not screamingly-famous newer ones. But sometimes in life you feel compelled to do what's right, and I feel I have a duty to point out that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I is a truly, truly horrible… more »

Another obscure movie review...The Breaking Point (1950) is the second adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, the first being the far more well-known Bogart-Bacall vehicle. I read the novel about a million years ago but don't remember it… more »

Another obscure film review...this time Boots Malone (1952), starring William Holden and directed by studio pro William Dieterle. Holden plays the title character, a down-on-his-luck jockey's agent with no one to represent and not a dime in his pocket, f… more »

If you poll movie geeks anywhere in the world and ask them to name the three greatest directors of all time I'd wager you'd get quite a range of answers. Maybe Hitchcock would be on a few lists, Bergman, Fellini, John Ford, and probably at least one pret… more »

I've said before that the combination of cheap high-end video technology and a billion cable outlets means we are now living in a golden age of documentaries. Just by fluke last night I happened to catch one of the best and most unexpectedly fresh I've s… more »

The original Arthur (1981) is one more rare example of a well known film I somehow managed to miss until recently. As entertaining and funny as it is it mostly just set me thinking how much movies and society have changed in the last thirty years.  So in… more »

I'm not exactly alone when I point out that the Oscars are stupid. They've really always been stupid, mostly because they tend to confuse pretension with actual artistic achievement. Look at it this way:  if the Academy Awards really meant anything they… more »

Another in a series of time-delayed film reviews...I'm entirely confident in stating that David Fincher is one of our greatest living directors. I think his only pretty much total miss was The Game (though it's still fun to watch) and he's a master at ma… more »