Tips from Chip

The college I went to was a small, Division III school in sports.   At that level there are no sports scholarships allowed and most of the ...

The Visitor is the movie that Richard Jenkins had been waiting 25 years for.   After having been a supporting actor in any number of well-r...

The movie V for Vendetta is based on the 1980s graphic novel of the same name.   It was written by Alan Moore (Watchmen), but he refused to...

Valkyrie details the actual events surrounding a plot by some officers in the German military to assassinate Hitler.   Unless you slept thr...

The Verdict is a courtroom drama starring Paul Newman.   It received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, but lost to Gandhi (1982).   AFI...

Vanishing Point is pretty much the definition of a 1970s cult movie.   It features counter-culture and racial subplots in dealing with the ...

A Very Long Engagement re-teams director Jean-Pierre Jeunet with his Amelie leading lady Audrey Tautou.   While there are a few similar tou...

Anyone who has seen one of writer/director Pedro Almodovar’s films (i.e. The Skin I Live In, All About My Mother) knows that pretty much an...

“Voilà!   In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no ...

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was a big budget disaster flick written, directed, and produced by Irwin Allen.   Allen specialized in thes...