Tips from Chip

The Wind Rises is purportedly legendary writer/director Hayao Miyazaki’s last film.  There are those people (I am among them) who hope that...

Let me be honest right up front: I thought this was going to be the film that would break Marvel's winning streak.  A movie about a bun...

Each year that I do this I seem to be a little more reluctant to draw a line and name my Top 10 films of the prior year.  I always want to ...

I was reminded recently that I had saved these images.  They do a great job of illustrating just how big some objects out there in the unive...

Big Hero 6 recently won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.  I have seen four of the five nominated movies, only missing Song of the ...

Citizenfour won the 2015 Oscar for Best Documentary.  Even though I have not seen the other four nominees this did not surprise me.  The su...

Watching movies nowadays it sometimes feels like low budget filmmakers have forgotten what the primary point of a movie is – to entertain. ...

Ida won the 2015 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.  It was streaming on Netflix Instant and only 82 minutes long, so it was easy to che...

I watched 33 new movies in February, plus rewatched 1 film. I spent the month mostly concentrating on 2014 films and new entries from t...

Today the U.S. FCC five person panel determined that Net Neutrality should be enforced in this country.  This means that under their span of...

This year I picked 15 of the 24 winners, not quite as good as last year’s 17 for 24, but I’ve had fewer than 15 correct in other years.   ...

The Academy Awards ceremony is tomorrow night on ABC.  Check your local listings.  I first tried to pick the Oscar winners four years a...

I did this quiz last year and it got a good reaction.  Here are fifty more films for you to try.  If you didn’t do that well last year then...

I have now posted reviews for all eight films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.  Here is where I would normally say that I am not d...

The Grand Budapest Hotel allowed writer/director Wes Anderson to finally break through and receive Best Picture and Best Director Oscar nom...

Steve and I each happened to include a martial arts film when we picked movies for each other.  I like these kinds of films, but I think S...

The first thing that I noticed about Birdman was that it appeared as if the movie never cut away from a scene.  After a bit it became obvio...

Whiplash is the kind of movie that will probably polarize some people.  The rating on IMDB is stratospheric, so apparently the young males ...

I watched 15 new movies in January, plus rewatched 1 TV show season. After making a push last month to finish the year with less than 5...

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...