Tips from Chip

Grafton Notch is located in western Maine , near the border with New Hampshire .   For those people not familiar with the upper Appalachian ...

Step Falls Step Falls is located in a Preserve just south of Grafton Notch State Park in Newry , Maine .   While it technically i...

Screw Auger Falls Screw Auger Falls is located in Grafton Notch State Park in Grafton Township , Maine .   It is a popular touri...

Mother Walker Falls Mother Walker Falls is located in Grafton Notch State Park in Grafton Township, Maine .   It is a popular to...

Moose Cave is located in Grafton Notch State Park in Grafton Township, Maine .   It is a popular tourist attraction.   It features...

Looking south from Table Rock Table Rock is located in Grafton Notch State Park in Grafton Township, Maine .   It is a popular hiki...

“ Hello Mrs. Madigan. Arnold Braunshweiger.” – Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) trying to pretend to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, Last Acti...

Wings of Desire is a German film that was shot just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.   It touched a nerve first with its German audience,...

Last Action Hero was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempt to combine action and comedy together.   He did this by making fun of his own image.   ...

Being John Malkovich was my first exposure to the writing of Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.)   It would...

Back in 2004 if you would have told most people that an R-rated comedy starring two relatively unknown minority actors would be one of the f...

The title of this movie refers to Bruce Campbell, star of many B movies, including the Evil Dead trilogy.   [You can read my review of his ...

First, the movie Hamlet 2 is not a sequel to Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.   Hamlet 2 is a play within the movie that a high school drama teach...

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is the sequel to the very funny Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle .   [See my review of...

The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin , Texas has had a strict policy of no talking in their theater.   They would even run a short clip of former...

“The encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the spac...

Few movies treat science with respect.   Usually there is the person who is trying to use it to abuse power (the mad scientist), or it is ps...

Dark City could at first be described as “SF noir”.   Digging a little deeper it becomes far more than that.   It was director Alex Proyas...

In the summer of 1999 Warner Brothers responded to all of the parents who had been crying out for a quality animated movie that they could t...

Battle Royale is a Japanese film that has struck a chord around the world.   There has been talk for years of an American remake, but becaus...