Here’s a little personal tidbit: I come from a small town in Central New York.  It’s a fairly liberal and prosperous enclave in the midst of a mostly rural area, much of which has been depressed and impoverished for years. [...]

I tend to get around to watching certain films months, even years, after their release, even if they’ve been highly recommended to me. They go on my queue and then get moved around time and again until I finally give [...]

Do you remember a time when Nicolas Cage was not a caricature? Think hard.  I know you can do it.  You might have to scroll back through some of Cage’s screen credits on IMDb to refresh your memory, but there [...]

Okay. Rant time. This weekend After Earth, a scifi thriller set in the far future, opens across the globe.  The film is basically sold as a two man show, those two men being box office star Will Smith and his [...]

Sunday was Peter Cushing’s birthday.  Yesterday was the birthday of two other horror greats whose names are still coupled with Cushing: Vincent Price and Christopher Lee. Lee is the only one still living, and at 91 the man decided to [...]

I have many mixed feelings about what I’m about to say, so bear with me. I went a very traditional route when it came to my approach to film.  Classes in undergrad that turned to a Masters degree at NYU [...]

Okay, that headline may seem odd.  You are after all reading a website right now called Man, I Love Films. Presumably, you are not here because of some deep love of Star Wars collector spoons or your admiration for Uwe [...]

If you’re an American, and you went to high school, chances are that you had to read The Great Gatsby. I don’t mean that you actually read The Great Gatsby – but you at least had the book, perhaps, with [...]

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Sir Isaac Newton Newton wrote this in the 1600s as a modest response to people praising his genius. It’s a simple and clever description of [...]

I do not spend every waking moment thinking about how much I hate Shia LaBeouf.  While he occupies a very special place in my psyche, in reality I only spend about 10% of my time in a vitriolic stupor.  The [...]