It’s no secret that I love the Old West. If you visit my house, a silhouette of cowboys riding above the world “welcome” will greet you. My ...

Patient. Conniving. Gentlemanly. Calculating. Charming. Deceitful. Truthful. Selfish. Efficient. Ruthless. Gentle. Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) in ...

Film noir  movies love to explore the question of just how much hold the past has over us. Can a person ever outrun their past? Can they ato...

The central romance in Jane Eyre resolves happily. (Do I need to mark that as a spoiler? Surely not! Surely, if you haven’t read Charlotte ...

I spent a lot of years searching for my personal Civil Rights hero. History classes taught me the big names: Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa P...

I picked up The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) off the shelf at the library a dozen or more years ago because I saw it had Myrna Loy in it, ...

What’s the difference between love and obsession? How can you tell if you’re in the throes of one versus the other? Can obsession become lov...

Five hundred years ago, a monk and professor at the University of Wittenberg, Germany, wanted to discuss some theological questions with oth...

In his essay “The Simple Art of Murder,” Raymond Chandler explores detective fiction in general, but especially the hard-boiled kind he perf...

Anyone who has seen the ‘60s spy show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the 2015 film version will tell you that, although the film is faithful t...

When I was young, Ben-Hur (1959) was one of my top ten favorite movies. As a child, I enjoyed the spectacle of big set pieces like the sea b...

The summer before I left for college, my three friends and I went to see Ever After (1998), the last movie we ever saw together in a theate...

I was in my early teens when they released the movie Gettysburg (1993). My family rented it as soon as it hit the local video store. We set...

One of the things I like best about Robin Hood is how many flavors he comes in. Sweet Robin Hood. Dark Robin Hood. Zesty Robin Hood. Whateve...