Two Japanese World War II-era fantasy films from 2023 involving dangerous creatures crown my $5/month tier rewards for June - and they'r...

I hoped and suspected that The Zone of Interest would be the next film patrons picked for me to cover following its prominence at the Acade...

"The Unseen" is a series in which I watch popular films for the first time (spoilers are discussed, including for Twin Peaks an...

With summer officially coming to an end, it was finally time to wrap up my "Barbenheimer" reflections which began with a public do...

I've separated those titles for a reason - this is not exactly a study of the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon which weaves these two...

"The Unseen" is a series in which I watch popular films for the first time. The list, which moves backwards in time, is based on...

An illustrated guide to the living American generations (excluding those born after 2013) and the unique periods of the past century t...

This entry lists all of the actors, events, and photographers (for the era collages, where available) in my "Seven American Generat...

The Favorites  is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick. Casablanca (1942/USA/dir. Michae...

The Favorites  is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick. The Best Years of Our Lives (194...

The Favorites  is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick. Schindler's List (1993/USA/d...

When Wanda Jakubowska entered the gates of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau as a political prisoner of the Nazis, she seized u...

  The iHistory WW2 Video Competition "The iHistory WW2 video competition is proud to connect teenagers with WWII veterans, g...

Watching three films from 1944-45 back to back to back I was struck by World War II cinema's variety of flavors. Hail the Conqueri...

This is an entry in  "The Big Ones,"  a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.  There are s...

This is an entry in  "The Big Ones,"  a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.  There are s...

The seventh chapter in "32 Days of Movies" , an audiovisual tour through 366 films. (2015 update: included Vimeo embed afte...

The sixth chapter in "32 Days of Movies" , an audiovisual tour through 366 films. (2015 update: included Vimeo embed afte...

This is an entry in  The Sunday Matinee  series. Miraculous Virgin , Czechoslovakia, 1967, dir. Stefan Uher, starring Jolanta Umecka,...

Inglourious Basterds ' hook is clever, canny, and seemingly irresistible. A squadron of Jewish-American soldiers, led by a gentile b...