Director Abbas Kiarostami in the documentary 10 on Ten : “The subject of Ten is based on everyday life. Undoubtedly many serious viewers ...

Looking at contemporary jazz saxophone I believe one can trace the influences back to three saxophone players from the late fifties and ear...

I’ve mentioned in previous posts here my affinity for the Western genre. When I was little, my brothers and I would spend entire weekends w...

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For a couple of years I lived in a small town in southern Vermont within walking distance of the Latchis Theater, an art deco movie house b...

It’s 1982. Let’s say you’re visiting New Orleans and you want to get out of the touristy French Quarter, past the scammers telling you the...

The qualities of a great family movie are very different than those required to make a film primarily for adults. Many of the conventions a...

In the summer of 1993, I finally mustered up the courage to ask this girl I had been crushing on for a long time out on a date. To my surp...

Rebecca: This is so bad it’s almost good. Enid: This is so bad it’s gone past good and back to bad again. In the nineties Daniel Clo...

In the fall of 2007, I moved back to my hometown in upstate South Carolina after a couple of years in New England marked by academic stres...

Carol Reed was a British director best known for a series of dramatic thrillers, culminating in his best-known work, 1949’s The Third Man ...

Scott Brand of Caroline Records Top 10 Albums: Mabrak – Drum Talk (Dug Out) Ill Considered – Ill Considered (Self Rele...

Filles De Kilimanjaro and In a Silent Way are two records that clearly lead away from “traditional” jazz and into the “electric” jazz era ...