Film Reviews
Review: SOUL SURFER
There is a life-lesson that has always resonated with me and sounds a little bit like this: “Sometimes you have to endure the bad to get to the good.” I’ve heard this told to me [click for more]
Articles by John Gibbon
Time Marches On At MoMA
Long before Jon Stewart’s success in dramatizing the news, the American public was captivated by The March of Time. Launched on radio in 1931 after Time Inc’s Roy E. Larsen hired actors to play up [click for more]
Movie News
Catching A Fox At Lincoln Center
The last days of summer are winding down and you’re wondering what to do this Labor Day weekend? Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, with help from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, has brought together [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: DESPICABLE ME
No one ever said living as a middle-aged adult was easy. There is the constant state of worry about job stability, Social Security, maintaining the ‘excess around the middle,’ irritable mood-swings, being upstaged by a [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: COCO BEFORE CHANEL
People from good homes will be talking this year of fashion. Designers and label names will be spoken of without restraint; in fact, one familiar name of world couture will be a regular topic. That [click for more]
Movie News
Oscar Winner Karl Malden Has Died At 97
Karl Malden, the durable and revered Academy Award-winner who appeared in some of the most iconic and controversial films during the 1950’s, died earlier today at the age of 97. The character actor instantly recognizable [click for more]
Movie News
Trailer: Scorsese’s SHUTTER ISLAND
Looks like Scorsese is playing with madness – AGAIN! – in his latest effort, Shutter Island. The last time Scorsese so wantonly toyed with our minds, he gave us the superior Bringing Out the Dead. [click for more]
Features
Required Viewing: TCM Goes Back to School
Ah crud!!! You know, I promised I wouldn’t allow myself to get behind on my schooling this semester. And then sure enough, I got swallowed up in textbooks and caught under a growing mountain of [click for more]
Movie News
Versatile Character Actor Whitmore Passes Away
James Whitmore, the versatile character actor well-known for his appearances in films like Battleground (1949), Them! (1954) and Shawshank Redemption (1994) passed away in Los Angeles on Friday, February 6th. He was 87. Whitmore was [click for more]
Features
Required Viewing: TCM Pays Tribute To Montalban
Turner Classic Movies is preempting its schedule tomorrow, Friday January 23rd, in order to pay tribute to one of Hollywood’s classiest men, Ricardo Montalban. The following films are scheduled to air: 7:30 AM Fiesta (1947) [click for more]