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My columns for November & December could be interchangeable. That is to say, just about any holiday movie choice for Thanksgiving also works for Christmas and the other Winter [...]
At the Movies In case you haven’t noticed, it’s nearly Halloween time—a time for witches and goblins and things that go bump in the night.  It’s also the season for sca[...]
What Were They Thinking? Recently I’ve noticed that movie advertisements often include the phrase Brought to you by the director of …” How ridiculous that sentence is! [...]
Recently I saw the re-make of True Grit and I enjoyed it but it set off a bunch of thoughts about Hollywood and the Western. We think of the OldWest only from what we get from Holl[...]
• THE WAY BACK   (2010) Thriller This fine film might have slipped by you. It is a true story.  It stars Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell and Ed Harris.  In 1940 four prisoners break ou[...]
Hollywood Adventures of a Young Man The summer of 1951, I was not yet a young man—still a young boy. Like all grade school children, I was looking for a nice long summer of explori[...]