Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and Me (Revisited)
Sean MurphyAnd the Oscar goes to... Who cares? Okay, okay: I'll resist the urge to be a sourpuss and let it suffice that I express my indifference to the pompous and…
Being the Ball: What We Talk about When We Talk about ‘Caddyshack’ (Revisited for Ramis)
Well…we’re waiting! Actually, you already read this review. You already wrote this review. You can easily recall, now, when it occurred to you, sometime between the fifth or fifteenth (or…
Bill Hicks: Twenty Years On
2/26/94. A world pretty much pre-Internet, seven years before 9/11, six years before the two-terms Bush experiment. A kinder, gentler time? Maybe. It was certainly a less chaotic and busy…
Ralph Waite, RIP
This one hurts. You can have Cliff Huxtable. I was already too old to see him as a father figure by the time The Cosby Show rolled around. Plus, he…
We’ve Seen This Movie Before: Trying to Make Sense of Philip Seymour Hoffman
This isn't quite in the day John Lennon died territory, but I'll never forget where I was and what I was doing. Sitting at home, Super Bowl shopping complete, biding…
Arthur Rankin, R.I.P.: The Man who brought us The Bumble
My childhood would like to thank Arthur Rankin for living a long and purposeful life. How empty would my life be without Yukon Cornelius and The Bumble? (A lot more…
Maximilian Schell, R.I.P.
Another exceptional artist of the old school has departed the premises. Yet another individual of whom we can accurately say: his kind won't (can't) grace our presence in the future.…
Peter O’Toole, R.I.P.
They're all gone. Burton, then Harris, then Reed, then Taylor. And now, O'Toole. Yes, it all begins and ends with his once-in-a-millennium turn as T.E. Lawrence, and attention must…
Serpico and Turning Black Friday into Good Friday
Look at that dude. Pacino, clean-shaven and short-haired as the movie begins, sports the best 'stache of the decade, then goes goatee, then gets full facial (hair and head), all…
You Want To See Something Really Scary?* 10 Horrific Scenes for Halloween
First off, a confession of sorts: scary movies don't scare me. Or, to put it less bluntly, as a one-time horror movie aficionado, I quickly outgrew the ways gore supplanted…