Tips from Chip

Boyhood is one of the most well known of the 2015 Best Picture nominees.  That is because of how it was made.  Writer/director Richard Link...

The Theory of Everything is the last of the four Best Picture nominees based on real events that I have to review.  In this case it’s about...

I was at a bit of a loss on how to review The Imitation Game.  It’s the story of three points in Alan Turing’s life – as a teenager in the ...

American Sniper received six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.  It is based on Chris Kyle...

It seemed appropriate to review Selma – the film about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s protests for voter registration reform – on this day n...

The 2015 Oscar nominations were announced today.  Going down through them there are a few eyebrow raisers, but no out and out WTFs like a c...

I had heard good things about the film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, but I had never happened to get around t...

In 2015 I will have a new kind of post.  Oh, it will still be a movie review, but the origin of it will be different.  Instead of just doin...

Looking Back: I had some major events in 2014.  I re-entered the work force after a three year sabbatical.  I also published a second b...

Note: this will be a regular month end post.  I will do a separate post looking back at 2014 and ahead at what I might do in 2015. I wa...

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, sometimes translated incorrectly as The Story of the Late Chrysanthemum, is a Japanese film originall...

Daybreak (aka Le jour se leve) is the second French film I am reviewing as part of my A Great Year for Movies – 1939 category.  The other w...

As you can see from the poster to the right this film was marketed as “Garbo Laughs”.  Although popular with audiences she had a reputation...

In the crowded year that was 1939 Only Angels Have Wings still managed to get two Oscar nominations.  It didn’t win either of them, but thi...

Stagecoach was the first of many collaborations between director John Ford and actor John Wayne.  It was very influential both in presentat...

Gone with the Wind, based on the Margaret Mitchell novel of the same name, was the pop culture phenomenon of the late 1930s.  The book had...

I watched 32 new movies in November, plus rewatched 1 movie, plus watched a TV miniseries/season.  I continued to work on the They Shoo...

Hopefully it will be a short pause.  I was going to write my next review tonight, but when I got home I found my house had been broken into...

Wuthering Heights is based on the 1857 novel of the same name by Emily Bronte.  I have not read the book, so I cannot compare the two.  ...

The Rules of the Game, despite being so acclaimed by critics, actually has a pretty simple premise that has been copied many times – show a...