At this time of new beginnings, my contrarian spirit has me thinking about great endings. Great movie endings, to be precise. Tying together or summing up all that has gone on before, they are a large part of what make great movies great. After all, assuming it’s not total dreck, only at the end of a film can we really … More Details

A couple of weeks back I noted an interesting item in The Hollywood Reporter stating that in the latest Sight and Sound poll conducted among 846 “movie experts”, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo had displaced Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time. I confess I was stunned that this august group had picked a movie that, in my humble opinion, … More Details