Tips from Chip

This posting is days late.  My life has been in some turmoil.  I had another gallbladder attack a few weeks ago and I’ve been fighting with...

In the month of February I saw 7 new films, plus I re-watched 2 more. This is even fewer than last month and the reason is the same – I...

This is just a quick post to say that there’s been a sudden and unexpected death in the family.  I’ve been helping out however I can and I w...

In the month of January I saw 12 new films, plus I re-watched 2 more.  I also watched about 30 Oscar-nominated shorts, mostly from the 1930...

2015: Circumstances were such in 2015 that my contract as a Project Manager continued throughout the year, with some time off in Novemb...

Note: like last year I will be doing two separate year end posts – a regular one for the month of December and one for 2015 in review that ...

I need to qualify the title of this post: one nominee (1928’s The Patriot) is presumed to be lost and another nominee (1934’s The White Par...

In the month of November I saw 24 new films, plus re-watched 1 film, plus watched three seasons of one TV show and one season of another. ...

In the month of October I saw 27 new films, plus re-watched 2 films, plus rewatched a season of a TV show. After watching a whole bunch...

After the last month and a half of not really watching movies I got back into it in September.  I saw 68 new films, plus re-watched Season ...

I’ll do the movie status first since it will be quick.  I saw only one new movie in August.  That was the film Seven Psychopaths (2012) , w...

I’m a day late with this.  I’ve had an eventful last couple of days. I watched 22 new movies in July, plus re-watched five others.  I d...

I watched 23 new movies in June, plus re-watched three others.  This was about half the number of new movies as last month.  That was proba...

I watched 47 new movies in May, plus watched a season of a TV show.  This was quite a bit more movies than last month, and more in line wit...

I watched 18 new movies in April, plus rewatched 1 film.  This was a light month, and the total is only as high as that because I realized ...

I watched 22 new movies in March, plus rewatched 1 film, plus rewatched a TV show season. I spent the month mostly concentrating on 201...

I was reminded recently that I had saved these images.  They do a great job of illustrating just how big some objects out there in the unive...

I watched 33 new movies in February, plus rewatched 1 film. I spent the month mostly concentrating on 2014 films and new entries from t...