I had never heard of The Exiles before we started our journey through the National Film Registry. However, I had heard of Sherman Alexie whose name is featured prominently on the D…
Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend starts with one of the most famous opening shots in cinema history. The scene opens with a view of the New York City skyline. The camera tracks alon…
In the past, alcoholism was a subject that was danced around. It wasn’t something people talked about in “polite society.” There were treatments of sorts for people who were lookin…
Terrance Malick all but disappeared from the cinematic landscape after the release of 1978’s Days of Heaven. Twenty years later Malick returned with one of the greatest anti-war mo…
TWIN PEAKS: THE SERIES
"Going fishing" is the first line of the first episode of Twink Peaks. It's not as iconic as other lines that would spring up over the course of two seasons…
(Spoiler: noun-A person or thing that spoils something) It’s a shame The Professor and the Madman was plagued with troubles during and after production. Mel Gibson even tried to b…
Halle Bailey recently made news when she was cast to play Ariel in Disney's live action remake of The Little Mermaid. Instead of people celebrating a talented young actress landing…
(An almost spoiler free review) Make no mistake, American militias are comprised of Nazis, homophobes, antisemites, and xenophobes. These groups are anti-American and call on the e…
Netflix has released a lot of new content in the past few months. Some may see it as a bulwark against Disney Plus ready to be rolled out later this year. A lot of the new content …
The Western Past
It wasn't long after Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope and the Lumiere Brothers's Cinemtographe projected the first moving images onto a screen audiences were being ent…