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Not only is it cool to see a local boy doing good, but one that I've converesed with a few times and probably shared a theater with ove...

1. Detective Dee and the Mystery Flame (2010)- At the beginning, I was wondering how I was going to get through all the exaggerated wire-fig...

The Company You Keep Robert Redford’s “The Company You Keep” is old fashioned, crackling entertainment. Blending real life drama (American...

Things will be dark here for another week or so as I sort out some personal stuff..... namely moving into a dream home!

I'm a sucker for any female who sounds like Nena, and Natasha Kahn aka Bat For Lashes is the real deal...        Any new ...

Upstream Color As noted a few weeks ago here on this blog, Derek Cianfrance was proclaimed as one of the best emerging talents on the s...

The cult of Carruth is strong, at least here in Texas. Widely praised (both locally and globally), filmmaker/editor/producer Shane Carruth s...

On the Road One of the first “adult” novels I ever read was Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”. Its stream of conscious prose and restless, beat...

Emma Watson in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" Every year, one film slips through the cracks for me and I see it waaay ...

While I typically abhore commercials and fast forward thru them whenever I can, this spot by Dick's sporting goods chain, currently runn...

Baseball season is a little over 24 hours away.... and I cannot wait. Pizza bought for tomorrow night's Rangers season opener and fantas...

In conjunction with Film.com and their 50 best movie openings of all time, here's my humble five that missed the cut: 5. Narc ...

Dead Man Down After the international smash success of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”, it was only a matter of time before filmmaker Ni...

Ten more titles deserving a Region 1 DVD release: 1. We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)- I think the two most under appreciated Italian di...

Lore Giving some type of emotional complexity to the German point of view immediately following the Allied invasion and subsequent end to ...

Endless Desire (1958) ***- Imamura’s deeply black comedy is an interesting set-up for what will come in the rest of his career. A rag-tag g...

Yoshitaro Nomura's 1974 police procedural "The Castle of Sand" is an intensely microscopic view about the search for a killer ...

Side Effects Ahh, the comforts of Steven Soderbergh. One knows exactly what they're getting nowadays with his films (and sadly rumored...

1. Tom Horn (1980)- The next to last film actor Steve McQueen would participate in (the still unseen "The Hunter" would be the la...