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Of all Jackie Chan’s films, why would I choose to discuss 1997’s Mr. Nice Guy, one of his mid-period and largely forgotten starrers? Why would I skip past the films that made audiences sit up and pay attention to his unique, comedy …

ARE THE SHADES OF PEMBERLEY TO BE THUS POLLUTED?! Joe Wright's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE came out towards the beginning of my freshman year of high school. I approached it with a healthy dose of skepticism (although, perhaps, slightly inflated for a 14-y…

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”—Aristotle “I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence.”—Ricky Bobby Y’all, I love this movie. It played a huge role in Mac&…

I first saw Wet Hot American Summer several summers ago when I was a Cabin Leader for a stay away camp in New Hampshire. Movie Night was a tradition at camp. First, the whole camp would watch a movie together. Then, after we put the kids to bed, the…

As far back as I can remember, Martin Scorsese has been my favourite director since I first caught Raging Bull on TV in my early teens. It came at a time when I was discovering that cinema was an art-form, and Raging Bull, with its grainy black and …

There are so many reasons that Legally Blonde is one of my all-time favorite comfort films. For starters, it’s hilarious. Elle Woods introducing Bruiser Woods (her tiny dog) and herself as “Gemini vegetarians” gets me every single …

When it comes to film nemeses, some obvious contenders come to mind. Batman and the Joker. John McClane and Hans Gruber. Sarah Connor and the T-800 (although to be fair, they do team up in Terminator 2). But there’s one unsuspecting pairing I&…

The first time I watched Moonstruck, I was a cynical 19-year-old going through what was then the worst year of my life – in fact, the worst year I could conceive of anyone having, barring a famine or world war. Having just watched the film for…

There is nothing quite like the experience of Walter Hill’s 1984 film Streets of Fire because it manages to successfully combine so many elements from history, mythology, film, television, and music to create an amazingly anachronistic music v…

It’s always the perfect time for me to listen to Elton John’s musical arrangements and incomparable vocals fused with Bernie Taupin’s timeless lyrics because together they cover almost all variations of human emotion. While listeni…