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If I was asked to choose the single, most important moment in my life when cinema truly affected me for the first time, I would, without hesitation, say Return of the Jedi on the big screen at a pokey little cinema called The Metro in Ashton-Under-L…

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 …

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…

When I was a much younger human, I managed to stuff in even more movie watching than I do now with my only “reel” obstacle being the MPAA.  Now, while there are many excellent films rated PG-13 and under, the lingering problem for m…

I am a massive fan of music and a huge fan of movies.  Putting music and movies together is even better than the idea to combine chocolate and peanut butter.  Movies trade in emotion and the right song in the right place can amplify those …

Even though I’m a voracious reader, I have somehow managed never to read a James Bond book until recently.  (I also never saw a Bond movie until Die Another Day came out in the 00s.  Now I have seen them all many times over, since Jo…

Yippee ki yay, and then you can fill in the blank.  Roy Rogers originated the phrase (the first part, that is) back when my parents were around the age that I was when I first saw Die Hard. I have never seen anything with Roy Rogers, but I will…

Ghostbusters showed up on the scene like gangbusters when I was a kid, and I was thrilled to be part of the zeitgeist.  The video for the Ray Parker Jr. song “Ghostbusters” was on MTV all the time and everywhere you went parents and…

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. -T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”   Mad Max: Fury Road (and all the other Mad Max films for that matter) belong …