A Late Starter Dawdling Through Life
Here it is, folks, the movie review you’ve been waiting for since 1994 when The Lion King first appeared. It was inevitable that someone would eventually compare it with The Jungle Book, a classic Disney film from 1967. For those … Continued
The Wizard of Oz is a great movie. No question. Like most people who grew up on it in the age of television, I’ve probably seen it close to a hundred times. It’s an Easter perennial, like The Ten Commandments … Continued
I’ll miss Gene Wilder. And my five year old daughter, whether she knows it or not, will miss him as well. To her, he’s Willy Wonka, the star of a movie she watched for the first time at the beginning … Continued
Nearly forty years ago, I rode two separate buses to get from my house to a movie theater several towns away where the original Star Wars was playing. Since there were two theaters in downtown Rockville Centre, this was no … Continued
Imagine for a moment that the film Boyhood did not take place over a twelve year period. Imagine instead that the film’s director, Richard Linklater, filmed the movie over three months, and that instead of using the same children and … Continued