Years ago, when I was beginning to decide the topic for my doctoral dissertation in American Social History and Policy (heavy emphasis on...

Director Francis Ford Coppola could never be accused of being subtle. His grand, romantic vision of the world can be experienced through...

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman....

I must admit I was never a huge fan of Tim Burton's original 1988 Goth comedy. Except for Michael Keaton's curmudgeonly irreverent title...

"Let's have a party." In a slow summer that has offered little cinematic fare to motivate me to get out of the house and into a theater,...

It probably sounded great on paper: sexy marketing director with a questionable past gets sexy assignment at NASA c1969 and falls in love...

NOTE: I'm deviating from my usual movies posts, partly because there are so few interesting films playing in local theaters at the...

Writer-Director Richard Linklater had me at "hello" almost thirty years ago with Before Sunrise, his affecting 1995 mash-up I refer to as...

Welcome to MJ's Annual Oscar Picks: The 2024 Barbenheimer edition. Please begin by clicking on the link and feel welcome to sing along....

Note: This movie is German with English subtitles. I got a lot of good eye exercise watching Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, the...

If anyone would have told me six years ago that I'd be writing an impassioned essay about how Greta Gerwig was wronged by the Motion...

"White people think they want the truth, but they don't. They just want to feel absolved." American Fiction screenplay (2023) Whenever I...

With the Golden Globes wrapped and the usual over-analysis of what each win might mean for the Oscars taking up lots of social media...

Hollywood loves a good redemption story, and what better one this year that the reinvention of the recently disgraced Hollywood Foreign...

It's that most wonderful time of the year, when lists are created for every possible occasion: Best Movies, Best Books, Best of TV and...

To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable. - Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827) A friend of mine, a...

In his review of Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things, based on Alasdair Gray's 1992 novel of the same name and, perhaps, more loosely on Mary...

There's three hours and twenty-eight minutes of my life I can't get back. Ugh. I know. This is a movie almost certain to be nominated for...

About thirty minutes into Wonka, Paul King's prequel to 1971's Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and based on a character from the...

I'm still adjusting to the new normal for movies, notably, watching them on TV first because their theatrical release was extremely...