Released on Christmas Day 1963, The Prize is one of my most lasting Xmas gifts. It is based on the popular novel by Irving Wallace who wrote long, steamy thrillers. The Prize is about a group of Nobel Prize winners getting together in Stockholm to receive their awards. Nobel week takes place each year from … Read more
The first Hangover movie made a big profit. A really big profit. Enough profit to buy drinks for everybody you know or ever will know forever. This would give everyone a hangover so big it will make Kirstie Alley look small. Yes, that big. Is Part II as funny as Part I? Is wine in … Read more
This would be part 4 in the Disney Pirate saga that is based on its popular theme park attraction. Actually, this episode starts a new series of adventures since part 3 ended the last trilogy. Johnny Depp is back as Capt. Jack Sparrow. Geoffrey Rush returns as Barbossa and Kevin McNally is on hand as … Read more
Thor is the latest Marvel Comics tale about super heroes brought to the big screen. This one is the actual Thor AKA God of Thunder. He has a hammer. A big hammer. Only he can lift it. It’s that heavy. Aussie Chris Hemsworth plays the big hammerer. CH was recently seen as Jim Kirk’s dad … Read more
So, what’s your wildest dream? Mine always takes place every year around the same date. While you are sitting watching a certain TV show event I am out on the front porch, waiting. I have on my best white shirt that I rewashed trying to remove the mustard stains for the 74th time. I am … Read more
This movie has been optioned numerous times for the last 40 years or so but never filmed before now. No large studio wanted to take on the project because of the political subject matter of which most of them disapprove and the big budget needed to bring a story this long and involved to fruition. … Read more
Who is John Galt? All who have read Ayn Rand’s magnificent 1,200 page novel know the answer. She wrote about heroes and villains in stories set in philosophical issues. If you are unfamiliar with her novels you can always check out the 1949 film “The Fountainhead” which features Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal in a … Read more
For the older crowd who experienced movies in the theaters in the 1960’s this is not a biker gang film. Nancy Sinatra and Kris Kristofferson are not in this movie. The only actor you will recognize is the voice of the narrator. Morgan Freeman’s smooth and soothing tones add a strata of entertainment just like … Read more
This film is a SciFi adventure. If SciFi is not your favorite, this film may not be for you. On the other hand, this film references other movies like Somewhere in Time, Avatar and Groundhog Day. If you enjoyed these films it may be right up your alley. The story concerns a terrorist act on … Read more
One of my all time favorite films, and not just Christmas films, is probably one of yours too. Bob Clark’s 1983 film A Christmas Story or “You’ll shoot yer eye out.” Written and narrated by Jean Shepherd (he also appears in one scene at the department store where Ralphie and his kid brother line up … Read more