Puzzles

I was spoiled by opening scenes in the movies of my youth. The turning point year for me was 1977. I saw “Rocky” early that year, a movie that barely let you into your seats before tossing you right into the ring for a fight with Rocky Balboa. Soon after

For my next big project, I’m going to continue my slow speed chases through some more films that I love. I’m going to pick from my all time top 150 list, but I will come nowhere close to writing about all of them … we’ll see how much

While waiting forever for my AMC theater movie to start today, I saw a series of movie trailers, things I usually enjoy on some level. But I was annoyed to see that two of the movies had the same sappy tagline — Dream Big. This is a phrase I heard earlier

A weakness of movie criticism is that one is expected to capture the essence of a film on a single viewing in some solid, permanent manner. Now that I’ve worked through several long-form studies of films in very short bites at a time, I notice the pitfalls of the