Tips from Chip

Zebrahead is a small independent film that made somewhat of a splash when it came out, but then was pretty much forgotten over the next cou...

The film The Crying Game actually represents something unique in all my movie-watching experiences.  (No, it’s not the twist, for those who...

I’ve been away for a while working on my book.  Now that I’m returning I might get a reac...

I saw 10 new movies in the month of May, plus I re-watched two films.  My movie watching has been much lower the last few months as I’ve st...

“Did I fall asleep?” “For a little while.” – Standard exchange on Dollhouse Other than my end of month movie status I probably won’...

Mississippi Masala was made at a time after Denzel Washington had hit it big with 1989’s Glory, but while he still sometimes did a smaller ...

To a lot of people nowadays the 1984 Prince film Purple Rain is probably seen as a kind of kooky snapshot of a very specific time in music ...

Despite the year and the title, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul has nothing to do with Muhammad Ali (in case you were wondering.)  It’s a German fi...

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner features three screen legends – Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, and Sidney Poitier.  As a result, the fourth...

Note: this post is inspired by Alex Withrow’s April 5, 2013 post Top 10 Movie Pet Peeves and his April 1, 2014 post Top 10 Movie Clichés (...

I saw 13 new movies in the month of April.  I didn’t start or complete any new lists. I am semi-actively working on the following lists...

Sayonara is the oldest mainstream film I can think of that is openly supportive of interracial marriage.  It garnered a lot of notice from ...

There have been several movie versions of the musical Show Boat, based on the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein stage musical, which was itself...

Unlike my prior review – Broken Blossoms – The Bitter Tea of General Yen shows actual passion between an Asian man and a white woman.  It’s...

Director D.W. Griffith is nothing if not schizophrenic.  Just four years after making the epic The Birth of a Nation (about how the Ku Klux...

Young Boy with Coffee – “Excuse me, I happened to be passing, and I thought you might like some coffee.” Little Girl – “Oh, that'...

Matthew McConaughey had a celebrated year in 2013 with a memorable cameo in The Wolf of Wall Street and an Oscar-winning turn in Dallas Buy...

The third season of Game of Thrones is based on the first two thirds of the novel A Storm of Swords – the third book in the ongoing series ...

I saw 17 new movies in the month of March, I had 1 re-watch, and I rewatched a TV season.  I finished off the last of the movies that appea...

Stoker was one of my most pleasant surprises when I was working my way through a bunch of 2013 films I had heard good things about.  It’s t...