Tips from Chip

Believe it or not I’ve finally come to the end of my Movies with Interracial Relationships category.  And what better way to end than with ...

Live and Become has a curious mixture of nationalities behind it.  It’s co-written and directed by Radu Mihaileanu – a Romanian man.  It’s ...

The Thrumcap as seen from Champlain Mountain This post describes a loop hike that traverses Champlain Mountain from west to north, wi...

The first three peaks summited (all in foreground) This post describes a loop hike that summits four of the mountains west of Jordan Pon...

View from the summit of Norumbega Mountain This post describes a loop hike that traverses Norumbega Mountain, which hugs the east side o...

Looking southwest from Cadillac Mountain There are four major ways to summit Cadillac Mountain on foot.   I have done all of them and yo...

Believe it or not I was finally going to post a movie review again tonight, but when I checked email I saw that a comment had been left on ...

This post is a day late.  I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy last night instead.  Marvel delivers another real winner.  Unless you hate ...

I was chosen by Steve Honeywell at 1001plus to participate in the Six Degrees of Separation Blogathon, which was started by Nostra a...

Weird Al Yankovic pretty much spans my musical consciousness.  I was in high school when a friend brought in something he had taped off the...

The film Far from Heaven is set in the 1950s, but explores topics that no 1950s film would have been able to touch – homosexuality and inte...

Nowadays the film Monster’s Ball is probably best remembered for “the sex scene”.  It involved Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton and the...

Here’s the cover of the 2014 edition of this series. I found it on Amazon UK .  The text with it mentions the films Gravity (the ...

When Night Is Falling is a Canadian film from writer/director Patricia Rozema.  It features a love triangle between a white man, a white wo...

Once upon a time movie studios were able to produce serious films for adults with a minimum of teenage boy smirking or older prudish condem...

I saw three new movies in the month of June, plus I re-watched four films.  My movie watching has been much lower the last few months as I’...

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...