My family and I saw A Christmas Story  on its opening day in 1983, and I saw it again a few weeks later with my Cub Scout pack.  Every holid...

I LOVED IT!! Okay, it's the new movie adaptation that came out just before Thanksgiving.  I still haven't seen the original musical ...

"HEY!  UNTO YOU A CHILD IS BORN!!!" I needed to see this movie right now.  The Best Christmas Pageant Ever  is a story near and de...

Many years ago an idea hit for a Godzilla movie.  There are strong doubts that I'll ever get to make it but the notion still occupies my...

I think Hillbilly Elegy must have hit Netflix this week.  A friend and I were discussing it just yesterday but I had no idea it was coming ...

There is likely no disputing that Christopher Nolan is king of high-concept cinema.  With Tenet I am wondering if maybe he went for TOO hig...

There is a tradition I never fail to keep: whenever I get snowed in and can't go anywhere, I turn down the lights and crank up the sound...

George MacKay in 1917 This won't be so much a detailed review as it is a gut reaction to something barely prepared for.  1917 isn...

Now look, I waited decades... decades ... to be able to say that I have seen "Episode Nine".  It became like a lifelong hope tha...

So let's get the obvious out of the way first: YOWZA!!!!   Maybe the greatest Star Wars trailer in all of history.  But ahhhh...

Two matters have persisted in my mind during the past several months leading up to Spider-Man: Far From Home .  The first, obviously, is ...

Well, they sure showed me. Toward the end of Solo , there is a brief scene with Emilia Clarke's character Qi’ra.  And maybe it sh...

It was a Friday afternoon in the spring of 2008.  A friend was running for state office in North Carolina and I had been serving as his c...

Okay, it's not a "perfect" movie.  I for one would have appreciated more of Ultron's legendary Oedipus complex between h...

I can't decide if Warm Bodies is a zombie movie with romance and comedy or if it's a romantic comedy with zombies. Either way, I ...

And I STILL loved every freakin' awesome minute of it!! I also must say from the getgo that if Peter Jackson and his fellow scribes on...