Acapulco: Your Grandparent’s Cancun is Still Hot!
There was a time when Acapulco, Mexico was the hottest place on earth (and not just the temperature). Celebrities swarmed, … Continue reading Acapulco: Your Grandparent’s Cancun is Still Hot!
There was a time when Acapulco, Mexico was the hottest place on earth (and not just the temperature). Celebrities swarmed, … Continue reading Acapulco: Your Grandparent’s Cancun is Still Hot!
Thunder Bay is a city in northern Ontario, Canada. It is also a 1953 movie with Jimmy Stewart although as … Continue reading An Old Hollywood Take On the Gulf Oil Disaster
I love the Oscars. Yes, there are problems with the nomination and voting process and yes, there is too much … Continue reading Movie Comfort Food
I love Christmas movies. Every winter as the season approaches I feel a battle begin to rage within me, two … Continue reading “The next person who says Merry Christmas to me, I’ll kill ’em.”: Alternate Christmas Movies
I call myself a pacifist. I’m pretty sure that there isn’t a time when killing swaths of your fellow humans could be justified. I … Continue reading A Pacifist’s Love Of War Movies
It was just one week ago (this very moment!) that I was driving home from the airport, fresh (or fatigued, … Continue reading From Italy With Love or My Week In Italy Through Film
I LOVE classic movies. When a new one is released on DVD or shows up at the local rep theatre, … Continue reading The Death Of Classic DVDs Will Be the Death Of Me
I wasn’t always a baseball enthusiast (my wife says “read ‘fanatic’). For most of my life, I more or less … Continue reading A Baseball Newbie’s List of Lesser Diamond Flicks
Don’t get me wrong. I love the big boom as much as the next guy. Cinematic thrill rides still move me. … Continue reading The Blockbuster and the Death Of Hollywood (?)
Some (or maybe many) of you might be asking, “Who is Jack Cardiff? Why should I care?” and perhaps after … Continue reading Remembering Jack Cardiff