Mary's Magical Ticket

For my birthday, my daughter Mary spent $30 on a deal that looked too good to be true. For the price of $30, I could go to as many first run films as I desired over the course of the following ninety days. We did the paperwork. We received the card in the mail. We took it to our local Regal theater and by God it worked. In this collection, I will endeavor to describe and document our use of that ticket over the next three months.

Phantom Thread...Elongated Elegance in the Room

Part Pygmallion, Part Last Tango in Paris, Mix in some Henry James along with a huge dose of ACTING and DIRECTING and we have arrived at the recipe...

Winchester; The Ghost and the Ghost

Back in 1958, Daryll Zanuck approached Alfred Hitchcock. Producer Zanuck wanted Hitch to direct a film about the infamous Winchester House in San...

The Last Jedi

Rigor is an important element in the evaluation of art. Rigor suggests that the finished product adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Sadly,...

Movies Are Work

I can procastrinate no longer. I've reached the limit. I'm down to the last few minutes. Procastrination is such hard work. I know there's something...

Party

I was warned by local critic Adam Lubitow that 'The Party', a film directed by Sally Porter, was both absorbing and forgettable. Armed with Adam's...
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