The sad news came out this morning that Gene Hackman  and his wife were found dead in their home in New Mexico.  An investigation as to what...

Almost exactly ten years ago I launched a new series on The Knight Shift: Movies I've Never Seen .  It's just what it suggests.  I w...

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 ...

And, ummm... little on the fence about this.  I think David Corenswet is definitely tapping into the Superman mystique.  When I see him as S...

I have a lot of fond recollections stemming from  A Christmas Story , that 1983 film about nine-year-old Ralphie Parker (delightfully played...

"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...

In the past couple of years some beloved characters have begun entering public domain.  And that's led to them being abused by people wi...

 Happy fortieth anniversary to Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street .

It was forty years ago today, October 26th 1984, that James Cameron's science-fiction thriller (I'd also consider it horror) The Ter...

This is one of my favorite scenes in motion picture history.  From the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian.   Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has ju...

Just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the movie Jaws comes the Official Jaws LEGO Set ! Click on the pics to enlargen (you're gon...

  It was on May 14th, 1944 that a little boy was born in Modesto, California.  Growing up he was a restless young man, with no clear idea of...

I had seen the commercial that ran during the Super Bowl.  While browsing the magazines at Barnes & Noble I flipped through the pages of...

It was on this date in 1974 that filmmaker Mel Brooks released his western spoof upon an unsuspecting world.  And comedy was never the same ...

 New trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire dropped a few hours ago and I've watched it a few times now.  I'm getting a vibe that ...

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...

 ...and, well, I'm stoked  about this movie.  It looks like it could be even better than Ghostbuster: Afterlife .  And I loved that movi...

This is... THE greatest thing that I have seen in a very long time.  These kids are... wow.  They are amazing!  They were able to pull off ...

 See?  I really do  know how to write an op-ed piece that doesn't honk off many readers! This edition of Elon's student newspaper Th...