When I was young, my mother would drum words into my head night after night in preparation for the yearly spelling bee.... Read More
Moving on from toys, bugs and monsters, Pixar went under the sea and snagged a big fish with FINDING NEMO... Read More
Legendary French composer Georges Delerue finally won an Oscar in 1979. But that award is tainted—or sweetened, depending on how... Read More
Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. Tom and Jerry. Carl Hanratty and Frank Abagnale, Jr. It’s all about the chase. Steven Spielberg’s confection,... Read More
Life and love on the Marseilles waterfront form the basis for Marcel Pagnol’s three plays–MARIUS (1929), FANNY (1932), and CESAR... Read More
Three different filmmakers—Al Pacino, Richard Loncraine, Laurence Olivier—have tackled RICHARD III, and each provided wildly different artistic visions of Shakespeare’s... Read More
It’s Gay Pride this weekend here in New York City so it’s only appropriate that this week’s trailer selection goes... Read More
THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN is exactly what the title suggests: an episodic, highly entertaining (and highly fictionalized) “biography” of... Read More
Ah, the joys of guilty pleasures. And the joys are many in Stanley Kramer’s THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA. Based on... Read More
How can I describe Jacques Demy’s THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG? It’s not an opera, even though every word of the... Read More