Here’s a little Dr. Science quiz for you. Several years ago there were two science fiction movies that were released around the same time. One was called The Incredible…
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Annie Proulx, who seems to love writing about people dealing with a lot of internal torment, let some of her own out when the movie based on her short story…
Before she died of a heart attack in 1961 Anna May Wong had “died a thousand deaths” on screen. As America’s first Asian lady of the movies, Wong was…
I have often wondered where my interest and fascination with cities came from. I remember that I liked playing touch football in the street, But other kids, like little…
Brokeback Mountain might be considered one of those seminal films that breaks through an American taboo, not because it presents male homosexuality in a feature film with “name” lead actors, but…
Movies and travel often evoke similar emotions. Each can transport us to other times and other places. Nowhere in film genre is this more evident than in the…
The Academy Awards are coming up. I can never watch them without wondering about my dear late friend Denis Sanders. Denis walked up there twice to accept an…
It has to be no great revelation that sci fi flicks about aliens must really be about the abiding problem that the human race has with itself – we humans…
A distributor for Columbia Pictures told me several years ago that the primary target for films these days is a 19-yeat-old male. I doubt that the maxim has changes…
Given the shelf life of American popular culture it’s unfashionable to discuss a movie after it has been released into DVD, but I just got my first look beyond a…