Tips from Chip

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...

The first thing that I noticed about Birdman was that it appeared as if the movie never cut away from a scene.  After a bit it became obvio...

Gone with the Wind, based on the Margaret Mitchell novel of the same name, was the pop culture phenomenon of the late 1930s.  The book had...

The film 12 Years a Slave is based on the 1853 memoir of the same name written by Solomon Northup.  It’s been made into a film before, but ...

If you ask people to list the ten least deserving Best Picture winners chances are pretty good that The Greatest Show on Earth will be amon...

What praise can be given to Lawrence of Arabia that has not already been spoken many times over?  What words can be written about both a mo...

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...

Every once and a while a movie that is very popular with audiences will also win the Best Picture Oscar.   This happened in 1994 with Forre...

Look at pretty much any movie-related person’s or publication’s list of the greatest films of all time and you will find Casablanca at or ...

At the time it won the Oscar, Rain Man was the highest grossing Best Picture winner of all time.   (It has since been surpassed by Forrest ...

Slumdog Millionaire is an absolutely terrific film that swept through the Oscars in 2009.   It won 8 of the 10 awards it was nominated for, ...

The movie The Artist is a love letter to the silent movie era of Hollywood .   Not only is it about the effect of sound movies (“talkies”) ...

This movie won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1999.   Among others it beat out Steven Spielberg’s movie Saving Private Ryan.   There was some...

This movie is the one that might beat out The Social Network for the Best Picture Oscar.   It recently won Best Picture from the Producers G...

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

This movie stars Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.   Jodie Foster is one of the few child actresses that made a successful transition into a...

This movie stars Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.   Nicholson needs no introduction.   Louise Fletcher has worked constantly in both movi...

This movie stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.   If the names are not familiar then this is an excellent movie to introduce them to you...