The mark of a great documentary is that no matter how many books you’ve read on a given subject (three about Air Force One) or other documentaries you’ve seen (also three, but two were about the 707 and one was…
By 2005, two years into my tenure at Film Threat, I had reviewed many independent films, and not the ones you see in theaters. They were without distributors, the ones made in small towns with broke, but passionate casts and…
Knowing of the filmmaking grind from movie history books, memoirs, and seeing various productions at work while living in the Santa Clarita Valley just north of Los Angeles for nine years, I rarely envy filmmakers and actors the experiences they…
The thing to understand about Mill Creek Entertainment’s The Decade You Were Born DVDs is that they’re made with what’s available, what they own for cheap, what they can get from the public domain for free. That’s mostly not so…
It was dark outside when my family and I left the Walt Disney Concert Hall after the awards ceremony in a cavernous room there for the Stock Market Game, which my father, a business education teacher, teaches in his classroom….
The first opera I ever saw was Nixon in China, part of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2010-11 season, which was broadcast via satellite by NCM Fathom to Edwards Valencia 12 in Valencia, California, one theater of many receiving the broadcast at…
Pennsylvania has wheelbarrows, tractors, tractor tires, bicycles, trucks, custard cups and glasses, rifles, silverware, candlestick holders, and more, all rounded up for auction, handled by auction companies such as Zettlemoyer Auction Company in Fogelsville, which boasts three generations of speedy…
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio. –“We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel Walk into the Casa de Regalos (House of Gifts) gift shop at Ventura Harbor Village in Ventura, California,…
Besides inspiring a desire to watch The Hunt for Red October again, which was met right after watching this, The Sinking of the Laconia also inspires disbelief: The Nazis? Humanitarians? Really? It’s true. Apparently, the farther they are from the…
First, let me get out of the way all the words that would make me worry about overuse throughout this review: Smart, excellent, first-rate, astute, intelligent, remarkable, exceptional, unusual, offbeat, unconventional, quirky, outlandish, entertaining, zany, diverting, sparkling, hilarious, uproarious, continuous…