Trying to beef up my archives here on the site. I watched this classic earlier in the summer. Though it would later be cemented when they re-teamed with George Roy HIll in 1973’s “The Sting,” Paul Newman and Robert Redford create one of the greatest film duos in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” You’d […]

To compare “Wild Strawberries” to a story that’s a bit more grounded (yet still part fantasy), what instantly comes to mind is “A Christmas Carol.” Though that classic is much more exaggerated, it shares that reflective spirit, sense of personal regret and un-fulfillment and the desire to make amends. The difference is that in “Wild […]

If you’ve been following me closely I’m 3-for-3 in Weekend Domestic Box Office projections since I started them the first weekend in September. Although I didn’t post last week since I was out of town, I did offer my No. 1 spot prediction of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs taking two weeks in a […]

If any of the kids in “The Bad News Bears” were your child, or if you had any acquaintance with a youth sports coach even remotely like Morris Buttermaker, you’d be outraged and embarrassed. At the same time, the film delivers a message that all involved with youth sports probably couldn’t hear enough of. In […]

Have you ever really sat down and thought about this? Why there’s an entire film genre dedicated to zombies? In honor of Zombieland coming out this week, I could have tried putting together a Top 10 of zombie movies, but I’m going to be honest – I haven’t seen ten of them. I can think […]