Tips from Chip

This is the fourth for this year and 16 th overall review of a film that Steve Honeywell at 1001plus gave me to see.  He is doing the sam...

First things first, this is a few days late.  Steve Honeywell at 1001plus and I plan to post our monthly reviews of the films each of us g...

After a thirty year wait Max Rockatansky returns in Mad Max: Fury Road …probably.  (More on that in a bit.)  This is a balls to the wall, c...

What do you get when Steve Spielberg directs a film from a screenplay written by the Coen Brothers?  Bridge of Spies .  It’s a period dram...

Room is nominated for four of the big five Oscars – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.  I don’t know t...

Spotlight is a film about the work Boston Globe journalists did to research and expose the vast scope of child molestation and cover-up tha...

As I write this The Big Short just became the unexpected winner of the Producers Guild Award for Best Picture.  Since the PGA winner has pr...

I have seen five of the eight Oscar nominees for Best Picture so far and among them The Martian is my favorite.  It combines the best aspec...

As I write this The Revenant appears to be the emerging favorite to win Best Picture at the 2016 Oscars.  That is still more than a month a...

Note: this is a revised and expanded version of the comments I left on Letterboxd after seeing this film a few weeks ago. Back in 1999 ...

We have arrived at my August review of a movie recommended courtesy of Steve at 1001plus .  This one is a film that I was interested in whe...

If you go to IMDB.com you will find Christopher Nolan’s films to be rated far beyond all reason.  There is actually a group of people who t...

I saw the film The One I Love just before finalizing my Top 10 Films of 2014 list.  I’m glad I did because this movie ended up making it on...

When the Oscar nominations were announced in January the film Nightcrawler was one that I would sometimes hear mentioned as having been “ro...

The Wind Rises is purportedly legendary writer/director Hayao Miyazaki’s last film.  There are those people (I am among them) who hope that...

Let me be honest right up front: I thought this was going to be the film that would break Marvel's winning streak.  A movie about a bun...

Each year that I do this I seem to be a little more reluctant to draw a line and name my Top 10 films of the prior year.  I always want to ...

Big Hero 6 recently won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.  I have seen four of the five nominated movies, only missing Song of the ...

Citizenfour won the 2015 Oscar for Best Documentary.  Even though I have not seen the other four nominees this did not surprise me.  The su...

Watching movies nowadays it sometimes feels like low budget filmmakers have forgotten what the primary point of a movie is – to entertain. ...