• January 27, 2015
• At Home, Drama

Alas, where would the world be without Rain Man?  What would we call our friends when they rattled off some obscure fact or showed signs of obsessive rigidity?  What...

• March 6, 2014
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

This is an Epic with a capital “E”, that’s for sure. Swords, and tigers, and blood, oh my! Actually, a lot of blood. Muddy armies hacking each other to...

• December 1, 2013
• At Home, Drama, War

I have no idea why it took me so long to see the 1946 Best Picture Oscar-winner The Best Years of Our Lives. I, like many movie-lovers, went through...

• October 27, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Shortly after seeing the original Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs a few years back, I heard that the rights had been optioned by Brad Pitt, of all people, for...

• September 23, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

Perhaps showing what a timeless classic it is, Casablanca has provoked different reactions in me depending on when in my life I saw the film. I first watched it...

• September 9, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

There are many Best Picture winners, true classics from Golden Age of Hollywood, that stand the test of time, like Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night, or...

• August 30, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance

Doctor Zhivago is one of those classic Hollywood films that is almost impossible to view completely objectively. If it’s a classic, it must be great, right? But it is...

• February 6, 2013
• Moviepie Musings

A couple years ago I was in Los Angeles for a few days. During my whirlwind weekend, my friend and I decided we wanted to go on a Hollywood...

• January 26, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

The Minivers are your average middle-class family in England. That is, the classic Hollywood-type of “middle class”, where Mother is gorgeous and looks like Greer Garson, Father smokes a...

• January 26, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

I remember trying to watch Grand Hotel for the first time years ago on DVD. I’m always game for beefing up on my Oscar history, and I had never...

• January 18, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Based upon Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, the film explores the relationship between a stubborn Southern woman, Daisy (Jessica Tandy), and her good-natured but equally determined driver, Hoke...

• July 15, 2012
• At Home, Drama

Though Chariots of Fire won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1981, it is one of those winners that probably would have slowly faded into film history as a...