In-depth reviews of my favorite movies of all time.
Everyone has their thoughts on who the best Bonds were. Some, inexplicably, like Pierce "coffee breath" Brosnan best. Others think the new guy has something more to him than washboard abs and the permanent expression …
Among the inner circles of my film graduate school, I am known for a few things: A almost fanatical devotion to Howard Hawks. An incomprehensible love of romantic comedies. The assertion that Chaplin's much vaunted pathos is …
Far be it from me, a guy who has an unnatural love of romantic comedies, to try to tell you what MEN like in their movies, but that's just what I'm going to do today. …
Nobody loves Hitchcock as much as pretentious film snobs. I'm a year and a half into graduate school in film and media studies, and you would not believe the amount of Hitchcock bullshit that gets …
It's no secret to anyone who has perused my Daily Movie Reviews section that I am rather fond of romantic comedies. And I should make it clear that I don't just like the old classics; …
"Young people prancing around in the country" is right up there with "left handed forms of human endeavor" on my list of all time favorite movie subject matters. You name it, I heart it: People on …
“Take a close look at the world, keep on doing so, and in the end it will lay bare for you all its cruelty and its ugliness.” This was how French film critic Andre Bazin …
The Maltese Falcon was hardly the first private eye film (indeed, the Dashiell Hammett story it was based on had been filmed twice before the 1941 version I am discussing today). However, due to its …
Johnny Guitar is like no other movie you've ever seen. Yes, it is a melodrama, but its overblown dialog ends up making All That Heaven Allows sound like My Night at Maudes. Yes, it is a …
John Ford is, along with Howard Hawks, one of the quintessential Hollywood western directors. When one thinks of classical American westerns, John Ford films like Stagecoach and The Searchers immediately spring to mind. It is …