Tips from Chip

Mirror Mirror is one of two Snow White movies that were released in 2012.   The other – Snow White and the Huntsman – took an ultra-seriou...

Flight received an Oscar nomination for Denzel Washington’s performance as an alcoholic airline pilot that miraculously saves almost everyo...

In my recent review of Django Unchained I wrote that I’m not a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino’s films and that while I’ve liked most every o...

The first Hobbit film was the movie I was most looking forward to in 2012.   It did not come out until December, so that made for a long ye...

Skyfall is the third of the Daniel Craig Jason Bourne movies.   Wait.   That should have read James Bond, not Jason Bourne.   (Since the re...

Wreck-It Ralph is the last of the five films nominated for Best Animated Feature that I saw, and it turned out I saved the best for last.  ...

Searching for Sugar Man is nominated this year in Oscar’s documentary category.   It is about the quest of a couple of South Africans to f...

I have now posted reviews for all nine films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.   I am not done yet.   I intend to write reviews for tho...

Before seeing Silver Linings Playbook I had already heard that it was getting good word of mouth from people who had seen it, and that cri...

Everything about Lincoln the movie (aka “LtM” to distinguish it from the man) screams “quality”.   You can see it in the performances, in...

I’m not a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino’s films.   While I’ve liked most every one I’ve seen (2007’s Death Proof being a big exception), I...

As I write this review Ben Affleck has just won the DGA’s Best Director award for Argo.   This adds to Affleck’s and the film’s wins at Th...

Beasts of the Southern Wild is the first full length screenplay and film from writer/director Benh (not a typo) Zeitlin.   It stars first ...

Amour is nominated not only for the Best Picture Oscar, but for Best Foreign Language Film, too.   Adding in its nominations for Best Dire...

Life of Pi is the first Best Picture nominee I’ve seen that I felt was a step above the others, although I’ve still got five more to see. ...

You should know that this review of Les Miserables is coming from the perspective of someone who has never seen the stage musical.   While...

With the film Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow returns to the region of the world that got her an Oscar for The Hurt Locker.   Th...