Hard to believe I did a post 10 years ago with over my favorite of 2000-2009 ! And while I might shift, adjust or add to my prior list, I...

I recently finished Mad Max: Fury Road. I had given it a shot when it first came out on DVD, knowing it was a critically-acclaimed fan fav...

This is going to be a short post. The movie Andhadhun is an Indian film, that frankly - might be one of my most favorite films I've ...

Japanese director Akira Kurosawa is certainly a legend of world cinema - personally I have seen a handful of his classics like Ran (1985),...

Michael Mann's movie Heat  is an intellegent and action packed crime thriller that has script that and story that has enough depth tha...

As a kid, I was a big fan of Louis Sachar and was a little too old in the year 2000 when Sachar's Holes first hit the scene. That did...

Quentin Tarantino is not my favorite director - I don't dislike him, in fact I appreciate that he creates unique concepts and has his ...

I used to read bed time stories to my kids all the time and even push the reading level to expose the kids to books that were above their ...

I had no expectations when I picked up Wild Tales , other than I knew it was foreign contemporary film that hadn't hit my radar, but w...

At the first Academy Award ceremony the silent film  Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans  won three Oscars -- best Actress for Janet Gaynor (alo...

Feeling a little superhero fatigued (or abused by the franchises looking for sure-dough), I wasn't rushing to the theater to see James...

In the realm of watching recent acclaimed films that I'd missed previously, I finally made the time time to watch Whiplash . The dust...

I've been kind of lukewarm in my interest to watch The Wolf of Wallstreet , particularly when it first premiered, aware of the general...

I have failed to post much and enjoyed the past two years posting about the books I was reading, and recently (in the sense that recent is...