I like to think of “Mean Streets” as Martin Scorsese’s dress rehearsal for “Goodfellas” – a tale of a young Italian-American in New York that dreams of making a name […]
Movie Review – “Mean Streets” (1973)
ABC renews “A Million Little Things”, “The Good Doctor”, and “Modern Family” for final season
ABC today has renewed frosh series A Million Little Things, sophomore series The Good Doctor, and venerable comedy Modern Family for an eleventh and final season. A Million Little Things features the ensemble […]
Movie Review – “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” (1947)
“The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” is both comforting and uncomfortable at the same time. The plot revolves around an artist (Cary Grant) that has this whole town wrapped around his […]
Movie Review – “Jeremiah Johnson” (1972)
Outside of documentaries, no other film has covered man overcoming the ferocity of nature quite as well as “Jeremiah Johnson.” While the pace is deliberately slow, it takes this time […]
Movie Review – “Gunga Din” (1939)
“Gunga Din” is like one of those films that claims to fit into every genre, but doesn’t do any of them very well. A jack of all trades, but a […]
Top Ten Films of 2018
The quality of movies in 2018 came as a surprise to me. While I shouldn’t be shocked that filmmakers are creating better works of art with each passing year, I […]
Movies I Watched in 2018
While 2018 may not have been the most productive year on this blog for me, it was one of the more productive years of my life outside of this blog. […]
Movie Review – “Stan & Ollie” (2018)
“Stan & Ollie” tells the bittersweet tale of the last time legendary comedic duo Laurel and Hardy performed together. The film looks back on these days with an attentive nostalgia, […]
