RIP .

Billy Wilder would be on every short list for greatest screenwriters ever. I always gotta root for the writers who get to direct, and he w...

It's the seventh blogiversary of Blue Girl at They Gave Us a Republic . Swing by and say hi.

It would have been Akira Kurosawa's 102nd birthday on March 23rd. My most extensive post on him is this one from 2008 . The tumblr bl...

This year for St. Patrick's Day, I wanted to pass on Frank McNally's "History of Ireland in 100 Excuses." Here's a s...

RIP Robert Sherman , a prolific provider of catchy silliness.

(The many moods of Billy Crystal. Welcome to the Annual Post-Oscar Film Roundup, a tradition that dates back to the misty age of pre-blog t...

The Artist : Versatile silent film star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is riding high, but the talkies are coming in. He befriends an up...

Margin Call : Most of the action takes place in the course of a single 24 hours at a high-powered investment bank at the beginning of the g...