Tips from Chip

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...

North by Northwest is one of the best, if not the best, movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock.   Even people who know little about his films ...

White Heat is a movie that James Cagney made after he got over his concern of being typecast as a gangster.   He may not have gotten comple...

As I mentioned in my recent Casablanca review, sometimes movies are not the result of careful pre-planning, but rather a series of serendi...

I’ve only ever known one person who hated Field of Dreams.   She’s also the only person I’ve ever known who hated The Princess Bride, so ma...

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was a bit of a revelation for me.   I had seen Humphrey Bogart in several films, but he seemed to always p...

What can be said about the movie The Empire Strikes Back that has not already been written a dozen times?   Rather than do a “normal” revie...

There have been many, many incarnations of Sherlock Holmes over the years.   Some of them have contributed permanent additions to the mytho...

A majority of people list Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) as the best of the Trek movies.   While I am of two minds on that, I can d...

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 ...

“Play it again, Sam” – not said by Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca “Do you feel lucky punk?” – not said by Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry ...

The movie Dirty Harry didn’t invent the maverick cop genre (Bullitt is an earlier example), but it sure cemented it in the public conscious...