A Mind on Fire

To Kill A Mockingbird It's the 1963 Academy Awards. Kennedy is still in the White House. Dallas is still six months in the future. In August, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr delivers h…

Rowdy Girl Documentaries are the unsung heroes of the film world. They inform, entertain, and sometimes they effectuate real change. Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line (1988) r…

The Miracle Worker In brief, The Miracle Worker is the story of how Anne Sullivan taught a deaf and blind Helen Keller sign language and a vocabulary she didn't have before. Maybe…

Meredith Willson's The Music Man Make sure your trombones and French horns are polished. Empty those spit valves. Get those shoes shined to mirrors and make sure your uniforms are…

The Longest Day It's that time again. We're rolling back time and heading to the 1963 Academy Awards to take a look at the Best Picture nominations from 1962. The nominees for Bes…

The red carpet has been rolled out. The cameras' bulbs are popping left and right almost blinding everyone lined up to see the stars. Look! It's Old Blues himself Frank Sinatra. Th…

When people talk about great years for movies if they don't mention 1972 run, run fast and far. 1972 was a banner year for cinema. The New Hollywood esthetic was gathering steam. W…

DELIVERANCE With Deliverance we've reached both the end of the Best Picture nominees of the 1973 Academy Awards and our "first year" with Best Picture This. As a reminder, the pre…

Every once in awhile a movie comes along that makes you ask, "How have I never seen this before?" Prime Cut is one of those movies. A Quick Synopsis NIck Devlin (Lee Marvin) is h…

The Godfather It's 1972, but it feels more like the late Forties. Gravy is simmering on the stove. Garlic and gunpowder linger in the air. Luca Brasi is sleeping with the fishes a…