Tips from Chip

This is just a quick post to say that there’s been a sudden and unexpected death in the family.  I’ve been helping out however I can and I w...

I have now posted reviews for the seven of the eight films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar that I would recommend.  In regards to ...

After a thirty year wait Max Rockatansky returns in Mad Max: Fury Road …probably.  (More on that in a bit.)  This is a balls to the wall, c...

What do you get when Steve Spielberg directs a film from a screenplay written by the Coen Brothers?  Bridge of Spies .  It’s a period dram...

As you can tell from the banner above this review is part of the Acting Black Blogathon .  When I saw Dell’s explanation of this the ve...

Room is nominated for four of the big five Oscars – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.  I don’t know t...

Spotlight is a film about the work Boston Globe journalists did to research and expose the vast scope of child molestation and cover-up tha...

Steve Honeywell at 1001plus and I agreed to continue to do a monthly review of a film the other picked for us.  We did 12 in 2015 and we wi...

In the month of January I saw 12 new films, plus I re-watched 2 more.  I also watched about 30 Oscar-nominated shorts, mostly from the 1930...

As I write this The Big Short just became the unexpected winner of the Producers Guild Award for Best Picture.  Since the PGA winner has pr...

I have seen five of the eight Oscar nominees for Best Picture so far and among them The Martian is my favorite.  It combines the best aspec...

As I write this The Revenant appears to be the emerging favorite to win Best Picture at the 2016 Oscars.  That is still more than a month a...

The 2016 Oscar nominations were announced Thursday.  Going down through them there are a few eyebrow raisers, but no out and out WTFs like ...

Steve Honeywell at 1001plus and I agreed to continue to do a monthly review of a film the other picked for us.  We did 12 in 2015 and we wi...

2015: Circumstances were such in 2015 that my contract as a Project Manager continued throughout the year, with some time off in Novemb...

Note: like last year I will be doing two separate year end posts – a regular one for the month of December and one for 2015 in review that ...

As you may know Steve Honeywell at 1001plus and I selected twelve films for the other to watch and review in 2015.  We have completed those...

We have come to the last of twelve movie selections Steve Honeywell at 1001plus has made for me for 2015.  This one is I’m a Cyborg, But T...

I need to qualify the title of this post: one nominee (1928’s The Patriot) is presumed to be lost and another nominee (1934’s The White Par...

In the month of November I saw 24 new films, plus re-watched 1 film, plus watched three seasons of one TV show and one season of another. ...