Category: movies
Medicine Man
Monday, November 4, 2024
Medicine Man (1992, rated PG-13, 106 minutes) is a completely predictable story about a man and a woman chasing each other as they close in on finding a […]...
Lord of the Flies
Monday, October 21, 2024
Maybe you’ve never heard of this movie (or the 1954 book by William Golding). Try the book first. Its sustained drama shames the movie. Half of the movie […]...
Charlotte Gray
Monday, October 7, 2024
Charlotte Gray (2001, rated PG-13, 121 minutes) is a pedestrian World War II tale based on Sabastian Faulks’ eponymous novel that completes his war trilogy (see The Girl […]...
To Serve Them All My Days
Monday, September 23, 2024
There is an utterly familiar plot line in To Serve Them All My Days (TV mini series, 1980-1981, 11 hours, 13 minutes): a Welsh coal miner’s son survives […]...
The Wizard of Oz
Monday, August 26, 2024
Maybe you haven’t watched The Wizard of Oz in a while. It’s not just for kids. There are grown-up songs, introduced by Over the Rainbow, and probably you […]...
The Snow Goose
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
This justly famous short story by Paul Gallico is surprisingly simple in its construction and densely emotional in its impact. There are familiar plot elements: ugly old man […]...
The Dirty Dozen
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The plot isn’t complicated. It’s World War II, the American brass want to wipe out a French chateau filled with high-ranking German officers, and Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) […]...
The Best Offer
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The Best Offer (2013, rated R, 131 minutes) knocks you down with a surprise ending worthy of the name. I don’t indulge in spoiler alerts. Watch the movie […]...
Songcatcher
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
If you think you know what “hillbilly” means, watch Songcatcher and then think again. Songcatcher (2000, rated PG-13, 109 minutes) is, nominally, a story about illiterate hillbillies and […]...