It’s been a long road of prognosticators and pontificating on the way to this year’s Oscar nominees, myself included. As... Read More
CHARIOTS OF FIRE, the sleeper hit of 1981, picked up speed and sprinted towards the finish line in the final... Read More
“Best” is an apt word for THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES. The 1946 film won 7 Academy Awards, including... Read More
THE GODFATHER PART II is a rarity in Hollywood: a sequel that works as well as, or better than, the... Read More
Over 50 years later, David Lean’s THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI still stands as one of the all-time great... Read More
Producer David O. Selznick, who had recently gone through a “successful” bout of therapy (not at all common in the... Read More
There are innumerable issues that can crop up with with re-recordings of old scores. Sure, we can expect the sound... Read More
To close out a week in which my writing efforts have been alternating between Bernard Herrmann and LORD OF THE RINGS... Read More
Forty years ago today, man walked on the moon, an event that, along with the death of Judy Garland earlier... Read More