Tips from Chip

I was given a heads up at the 1,001 Movies wiki that the 2013 Edition (aka the tenth anniversary edition) of the 1,001 Movies You Must See...

Tora! Tora! Tora! is a big budget war film made during the height of the Vietnam War.   As you might expect, it did not do well initially ...

Win Win is the third movie from actor/writer/director Thomas McCarthy.   Since the 1990s he’s been paying the bills by acting, usually pla...

The movie The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (hereinafter known as TRAC 2 ) was released in the 1960s not too many years afte...

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...

The movie Rachel, Rachel was Paul Newman’s directorial debut.   It starred Joanne Woodward, who had been his wife for ten years at that po...

Europa Europa is a German film that tells the sort of true story of Salomon Perel, a Jewish teen who hid his religion from the Nazis durin...

Lt. Col. Korn – “You’re the only Major available in our headquarters staff.” Capt. Major – “No, Major is my name, not my rank.” Col. C...

So I got on my computer this morning to write my parent post for the next category of movies I will be doing.   I go to IMDB and find that ...

There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to face facts that certain things are not going to work like they used to.   Just becaus...

Bernie is a movie I had in Netflix Instant queue for a few months before I finally got around to seeing it.   I discovered that even thoug...

I had heard of the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, probably because Emma Watson was in it, but the first inkling I had that it migh...

The Other Dream Team is a documentary about the 1992 Lithuanian men’s Olympic basketball team and it is one of my Top 10 films of 2012.   ...

Here is my list of the ten best 2012 movies.   I believe I’ve seen all the big mainstream movies and critically acclaimed films of the year...

I saw 40 movies in the month of February, plus 3 TV series, plus 2 movie re-watches.   I spent most of my time trying to see Oscar nominees...

This was a fun post-Oscars moment.   Watch what happens when Jennifer Lawrence gets some praise from Jack Nicholson for her Oscar-winning p...

There's got to be a morning after It's 9 AM and the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony ended a long time ago.   Normally I get my pos...

The Academy Awards ceremony is this Sunday, February 24 th at 8:00 PM EST.   It is on ABC.   Check your local listings.   I’m posting ...

The second season of Game of Thrones is based on the novel A Clash of Kings – the second book in the ongoing series titled A Song of Ice ...

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