I scan the Huffington Post Entertainment section today, and I’m reading about what a box office winner “Toy Story-3” is shaping up to be. Wow – this is a surprise. As I scroll down the page, I see names like Miley Cyrus, Lindsey Lohan, and Megan Fox. I note that Angelina Jolie visited Haiti and that Jake Gyllenhaal was caught … More Details

No doubt about it: this is a frustrating time to be a movie lover of a certain age and outlook. It seems increasingly evident that Hollywood has been taken over by people who know and care very little about the movies themselves, but who live to target and promote formulaic, forgettable pap to an audience their studies say will pay … More Details

It all started with the hardboiled detective fiction which exploded onto the American popular culture way back in the roaring twenties, and which portrayed America’s evolving urban landscape as vividly as the Western genre did the rural frontier. The originators of this type of fiction – notably James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler – got their start writing … More Details