I don’t plan to watch. Which is astounding if I look back to the past. The Oscars were a ritual. My mother would stay up late watching them. She was a movie buff, she used to go to these Judith Crist weekends. This was back when being a fan was enough, you didn’t need a […]

You have no idea what William Hurt meant to the baby boomers. Unless you’re a boomer yourself. We went to the movies. There was a belief that television would kill the movies, but that turned out to be untrue. Movies superseded television, they were smarter, and although they ultimately reached fewer people, they impacted the […]

Trailer: https://bit.ly/35fmdWJ This is one of the strangest movies I’ve ever seen. Can I talk about movies? Or should it be war 24/7. I don’t want to be disrespectful, but I am paying attention. And I don’t see how the Ukrainians ultimately succeed against the Russians, who thought a little dab would do ’em and […]

He was a self-satisfied blowhard, but he had a window… You had to see “The Last Picture Show.” Not because of any special effects, not because of the look, but because of the performances, because of the story. “The Last Picture Show” impacted the culture. Today’s superhero comic book movies do not. It’s kind of […]