Getting your feet wet Growth is almost always a painful process, so why are coming-of-age films so  attractive?  Even the good o...

A wearying war of words When this film debuted, the quality of the script was universally lauded as being flush with ...

A big treasure in a tiny package With the rise of the Independent film movement in the 1990’s many talented young filmmakers were...

The Devil, probably. Roman Polanksi; just the name is a conversation killer.  The facts that may or may not be true regardin...

Too much steel, not enough man. When the original “Superman” film came out in theaters I was eight years old.  A side fr...

After being mesmerized by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald DVD in this same series, we returned to our local library to see if more...

Another find on the local library shelves to which I was also looking forward with great anticipation.   I’d heard of the Smother...