the passionate moviegoer

Old movies, because of what they are, serve as their own documentations. If one is curious about a certain title – or about a performance i...

I'm back from self-imposed limbo, feeling better and eager to share thoughts on overlooked movies - starting with Richard Quine's ...

Jack Lemmon turned in one of his finest, most assured and confident and also most unheralded performances in 1957's ”Operation Mad Ba...

There's been a silent campaign for the past two decades or so to kill off - or at least, demonize - the film musical, and critics, whet...

Toward the end of his directing career, Mervyn LeRoy created something of a comfortable cottage industry, directing the movie versions of B...