Tips from Chip

Note: For an explanation of my ground rules for this, as well as my picks for letters A to H, plus numbers, click here .  For my picks for ...

Note: For an explanation of my ground rules for this, as well as my picks for letters A to H, plus numbers, click here . For those film...

Note: this was too long to do in a single post.  I will break this up into three pieces and then include links to each one as I go along. ...

To be clear, I am not talking about a movie prop , like the ruby red slippers Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz, or the Maltese falcon ...

Note: this post is inspired by Alex Withrow’s April 5, 2013 post Top 10 Movie Pet Peeves and his April 1, 2014 post Top 10 Movie Clichés (...

There are any number of clichéd plot points that we’ve seen over and over in movies and TV episodes.  Maybe it’s the person who gets shot, ...

There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to face facts that certain things are not going to work like they used to.   Just becaus...

This was originally part of my Silver Linings Playbook review, but I separated it into this post both to leave my review a manageable size ...

I’ve had a movie category brainstormed for quite a while, but I was never happy with how I should go about presenting it.   I named it Doub...

This isn’t a regular movie review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.   I will do that post as part of my Oscar nominees posts in January...

I’ve seen more and more comments in recent years about the proliferation in movies of hand-held camera cinematography, or “shakycam” for sh...

I’ve seen more and more comments in recent years about the proliferation in movies of hand-held camera cinematography, or “shakycam” for sh...

In my Part 1 post I wrote about hiding the fact that I sometimes have great movies that for whatever reason I simply didn’t like.   You sho...

This is my 400 th post.   I’ve been kicking around some thoughts for several months now and I’ve decided to do something a little differen...