Thanks, AMC Network, for advertising your Thanksgiving Day marathon of John Wayne movies. Excellent! But I hope you’ll forgive me for telling you right now that there is zero chance of watching any of them on your channel. You happen to be a great outlet for original programming, but your treatment of movies is Philistine […]
A movie thread encountered on a friend’s Facebook wall included a reply that, in all seriousness and with no leavening irony, painted THE GODFATHER and THE FRENCH CONNECTION in particular, the movies of the early seventies in general, as the dark age that STAR WARS rescued us from. Gad. God. Gad. When I reacted with […]
A True Story from the Author’s past: Even as a child, I loved going to the movies. I loved seeing movies. I still do. But seeing them at home, even in this modern era where almost any movie you might want to see is available to you at the touch of a button, is not the […]