REMEMBERING HARLAN ELLISON
I will never, ever forget how I first met celebrated science-fiction author Harlan Ellison. I was attending a morning…
SAVING LOST FILMS, SETTING…
There is a bumper crop of interesting documentaries right now. Some of them play the festival circuit, others get…
WON’T YOU BE MY…
It shouldn’t be difficult to make a sweet movie about Fred Rogers, the gentle host of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood…
LOVE & BANANAS: FOOD…
Love & Bananas is a modest but captivating documentary about the sorry fate of elephants in Southeast Asia. It dodges…
MOVIES THE OSCARS OVERLOOKED
I hate the term “snub.” The idea that Oscar voters gather in a big tent and decide to ostracize…
BOMBSHELL:THE HEDY LAMARR STORY
It’s no longer news that 1940s Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr invented the technology we use in cellular phones and…
FROM LON CHANEY TO…
An uncommon number of rare and significant silent films have made their way to DVD and Blu-ray in recent…
