Category: Film & TV

Eviction | I Married Joan Season 1 Episode 10

Judge evicts Joan’s women’s club from their clubhouse. …


‘We’re Not Married!’ from 1952: A Merry Movie of Matrimonial Mix-ups

Commentary If you could get out of your marriage with no divorce, no legal fees, and no complicated settlement, would you do so? Five couples are presented with this question in “We’re Not Married!” from 1952. The trouble starts two years before the events of the film take place, when a justice of the peace…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Angel on My Shoulder’: The Devil Wields No Power Over a Good Man

PG | 1 h 40 min | Drama, Comedy | 1946 Director Archie Mayo prefaces his fantasy film with a phrase of exposition, “This story is about Eddie Kagle, who based his way of living on what Omar Khayyam once said: ‘Live fully while you may and reckon not the cost.’” That can be read…


Uncle Edgar | I Married Joan Season 1 Episode 9

The Stevens’ try to keep Brad’s visiting Uncle Edgar entertained and out of trouble. …


The Dr. Kildare Film Series (1938-1942): Celebrating Medical Integrity

Commentary Medical dramas have been popular subject matter for television series for years now. “General Hospital,” “Scrubs,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” and many more have capitalized on the public’s fascination with the drama behind closed hospital doors. Before these popular series captured people’s morbid imaginations, however, America’s favorite medical drama was “Dr. Kildare.” The name is doubtless…


Film Review: ‘Matter out of Place’: A Film About Waste Mostly a Waste of Time

NR | 1h 46min | Documentary, Ecology | 14 April 2023 (Austria) Of all film genres, documentaries have the greatest amount of creative leeway. There are no structural guidelines regarding content, narrative style, or presentation and, thus, no rules with which to adhere: Almost anything goes. No one working within this genre knows these things better than Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter….


Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘It Happens Every Spring’

1949 | Not Rated | 1h 27m | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi Like American westerns, the 1940s and 50s saw a massive proliferation of sports films. But while the popularity of westerns began to wane in subsequent decades, sports movies continued to evolve, giving us some of the more inspirational films in cinema. As America’s national…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Dragonheart’: A Knight’s Oath to Do the Right Thing

PG-13 | 1 h 43 min | Fantasy, Comedy | 1996 No matter how quaint it sounds, the “Old Code” of knighthood honors an ancient principle: right action can lead to right thought. If you’re persuaded to behave selflessly, committed to a cause bigger, higher than you are, you will find it harder to plot…


Film Review: ‘One Day as a Lion’: Scott Caan Finally Exits Dad James’s Long Shadow

R | 1h 27m | Comedy, Action, Thriller | April 4, 2023 Written by and starring Scott Caan, son of the great James Caan who played Sonny in “The Godfather,” “One Day as a Lion” is a fun, laconic, low-budget ensemble crime comedy, wherein everything is highly subject to multiple attacks of Murphy’s Law. Caan wrote a nice…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Defiance’

R | 2 h 17 min | Drama, Biopic | 2008 “Every day of freedom is like an act of faith. Our revenge is to live.” Those lines, uttered by the lead character in Edward Zwick’s film, capture its essence. A professor of sociology and Holocaust survivor-scholar from Connecticut, Nechama Tec, once wrote a book…