Tips from Chip

American Hustle won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical and is nominated for 10 Academy Awards.  I’ll be honest: if I had not known...

As a genre, horror movies don’t do much for me.   They have to be really outstanding for me to recommend them to others.   One of the thing...

American Dreamz pissed off a large part of the country when it was released in 2006.   It is a dark comedy and deeply biting satire of then...

Return with me, if you will, to the mid 1980s.   This is a time when men could have facial hair without being considered “gay” (as so many ...

American Graffiti is probably the first “nostalgia” movie ever made about the early rock and roll era.   Even though it is set in 1962, it ...

I was somewhat surprised when I heard another American Pie movie with the entire original cast was going to be coming out.   There had been...

After the success of American Pie, and the even bigger box office success of American Pie 2, the fact that a third movie was going to be ma...

After the success of 1999’s American Pie, a sequel was inevitable.   Almost as inevitable is that the sequel would try to repeat the jokes ...

The movie American Splendor is based on the series of graphic novels of the same name written by Harvey Pekar, as well as the graphic novel...

“You have me at a loss.   You know my name but who are you?   Just another American who saw too many movies as a child?   Another orphan of...

American Beauty won five Oscars, including four of the five major ones, capped off by Best Picture.   It only missed for Best Actress.   An...