About a year and a half ago I started seeing promos for the show Game of Thrones. To me, it looked dumb.Then the show came on. I'll usually give a new show one episode to hook me, so I watched an episode.I was hooked right away.I watched the next nine ep… more »

Just a brief follow-up to a post from a few months back on Stanley Kubrick's early career as a photojournalist for Look magazine. To my eye, this batch of images from New York also shows that he viewed most people as essentially interchangeable mannequin… more »

Another obscure movie review...I've seen The Tall Target (1951) a few times and it's always been worth another viewing. Set in 1861, it tells the story of a New York City detective trying to foil an assassination attempt against Abraham Lincoln as he hea… more »

Leonard Kastle, the writer and director of the independent classic The Honeymoon Killers, passed away last week. If you've never seen the film, it's an offbeat crime story based on the lives of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck. It was intended as a coun… more »