Tips from Chip

Like American Hustle, the film Her was also nominated in the Best Comedy or Musical category at the Golden Globes, and like American Hustle...

Dallas Buyers Club is a story that combines a real life person with fictional characters in order to tell the tale of a straight man diagno...

American Hustle won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical and is nominated for 10 Academy Awards.  I’ll be honest: if I had not known...

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 ...

The film The Wolf of Wall Street is based on the book of the same name by Jordan Belfort.  He is the main character in the film and is play...

The film Captain Phillips is based on the book A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips ...

The 2014 Oscar nominations were announced a few hours ago.  Going down through them I didn’t see any really huge surprises among the major ...

Chances are pretty good that unless you’ve seen the 2009 film The Way We Get By you’ve never heard of Bill Knight.  He was a Maine Troop Gr...

Okay, all together now: “Ooooooooooooooooh-klahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain!”  There, now that that’s out of our syste...

In 1953 Fritz Lang directed Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame in the noir film The Big Heat.  The very next year the three joined forces again ...

In my parent post for this set of Gloria Grahame movies I mentioned that she had been twice nominated for Oscars, winning once, but that I ...

Note: This post is not specifically about the films that were released in 2013, but rather the ones I watched during the year.  I will do m...

I saw 33 new movies in the month of December, plus I re-watched 3 others.  Last month I mentioned I had found myself working on several dif...

After my November month-end status where I updated my list of hard to find movies to remove the half dozen that had been located, I was con...

No movie review today.  I’m taking a short break for Christmas.  I will then have a set of three special posts the week after.  I will talk...

It didn’t take me much time into watching The Bad and the Beautiful to figure out why this film got greenlit.  It’s a tale of a once succes...

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...

Of all the films on the 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list In a Lonely Place was one of the most pleasant surprises.  Even thoug...

Crossfire was a nominee for Best Picture in 1948 and had four other nominations, including Director, Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor ...

The story of how It’s a Wonderful Life went from box office failure to Christmas classic is well known.  When I was younger, though, I didn...