Steve McQueen has only a few lines of dialogue in Lee H. Katzin's Le Mans , and most of his screen time is spent behind the wheel of hi...

Dad would have been 78 today. I hope he's still enjoying his travels. 

Sahara (Zoltan Korda, 1943) is a taut, well-crafted war flick with a fiendishly simple but incredibly effective plot: a ragtag mixture of A...

Steve spent some time painting the doors and walls of our Arena: The Contest game. They look great! He and Jeff and I navigated these sp...

I can't be sure, but I believe it was my friend Leslie who urged me to watch Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994) shortly after its release back...

Maybe this movie would have been better if it were 15 minutes and 17 seconds long. Clint Eastwood has created some legitimate masterpieces,...

SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Star Trek: Picard is off to a promising start with "Remembrance," as a retired Jean-Luc...

Freedom was just moments away. Sean careened down the final passage, boots slamming against concrete as sirens wailed and the emergency lig...

What a wonderful toy this was, and remains. It's a circa-1975 Space: 1999 Eagle Freighter, made by Dinky. Mom and Dad bought it for ...

Tonight I discovered that if you pour leftover oil and vinegar salad dressing into your toilet, it creates a spectacular and authentic diar...

Damien Chazelle's First Man (2018) can be summed up in just a few words: Sad astronaut goes to the Moon and sighs. What a disappoi...

SPOILER ALERT...! Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) is Tarantino at his gentlest and most reflective, tappin...

In Demon Seed (Donald Cammell, 1977), newly minted artificial intelligence Proteus has monstrous impulses, and yet his (its?) brutal drive...

Ad Astra  (James Gray, 2019) is sumptuously gorgeous, with incredible production design and breathtaking interplanetary vistas. Its music i...

Here are two recently rediscovered photos of Dad, on the left in both images. The boy on the right is George Wells. This would have bee...

Here's a photo of my paternal grandfather, shot back in October of1956. 

The Botanist (Maude Plante-Husaruk and Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis) is a fascinating look at resilience and innovation in post-Soviet Tajikista...

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday  (Adam Marcus, 1993) gets one star for its clever opening sequence, in which a well-armed paramilitary...