2025: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over the film releases of 2025
RAIDERS! — THE STORY OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE
The stranger-then-fiction story of the making of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION
Nepo Babies Circa 2025
Yes, the spread of Hollywood nepotism is a glaring issue, but it’s one that, for the moment at least, does appear to be improving
THE FUTURE WAS NOW: MADMEN, MAVERICKS, AND THE EPIC SCI-FI SUMMER OF 1982
About mainstream science fiction cinema in the summer of 1982, a pivotal time for those of us who lived through it
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
Another horror movie that doesn’t call itself horror
LET ME GO (THE RIGHT WAY)
From Steven Spielberg’s daughter, Stephen King’s son and Sean Penn’s son–Hollywood meritocracy at its best!
THREE O’CLOCK HIGH
A John Hughes wannabe that’s almost good
2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
5-25-77
An overlong and uneven but heartfelt and reality-centered period piece that’s only partially about STAR WARS
1982—The Greatest Summer Movie Season Ever?
I say yes!