Tips from Chip

Note: For an explanation of my ground rules for this, as well as my picks for letters A to H, plus numbers, click here .  For my picks for ...

Note: For an explanation of my ground rules for this, as well as my picks for letters A to H, plus numbers, click here . For those film...

Note: this was too long to do in a single post.  I will break this up into three pieces and then include links to each one as I go along. ...

To be clear, I am not talking about a movie prop , like the ruby red slippers Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz, or the Maltese falcon ...

If you go to IMDB.com you will find Christopher Nolan’s films to be rated far beyond all reason.  There is actually a group of people who t...

I saw the film The One I Love just before finalizing my Top 10 Films of 2014 list.  I’m glad I did because this movie ended up making it on...

Jesus Camp is a documentary about how fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. ensure they get their message to as wide a range of children as...

The fourth season of Game of Thrones is based on the last third of the novel A Storm of Swords, as well as parts of A Feast for Crows and A...

When the Oscar nominations were announced in January the film Nightcrawler was one that I would sometimes hear mentioned as having been “ro...

I watched 22 new movies in March, plus rewatched 1 film, plus rewatched a TV show season. I spent the month mostly concentrating on 201...

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...