The Swingin' Medallions, "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)". I'm not sure the Swingin' Medallions ever expected to be big stars, and I like to imagine they enjoyed their moment in the sun. Many (most?

Pauline Kael once referred to Bruce Lee as "the Fred Astaire of martial arts", and that's a good call. There is something so aesthetically pleasing about Lee's fight scenes that you watch, not just in ...

I used to tell an anecdote about El Norte... well, "used to" isn't quite right, since I'm still telling it, but this took place long ago and I'm not sure anymore if I remember it right. El Norte was ...

Rolling Stone has a new list put together by Michaelangelo Matos, "The 50 Best Stevie Wonder Songs". Tip of the cap to Matos ... it's a great list ... but what else do you expect when the artist is ...

I don't think The Mother and the Whore is a masterpiece, but it is unique in many ways, worthy of at least one viewing. (You can use HTML tags like and to style your text. URLs automatically linked ...

This is the second film directed by Goro Miyazaki, son of the great Hayao (who co-wrote the script). Compared to some of the classic Ghibli movies, From Up on Poppy Hill is relatively straightforward, ...

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Brief (18 minutes) look at the story of the Cinema Guild in Berkeley in the 1950s. Fun for fans of Pauline Kael. Doesn't include anything new, but us Kael fans don't care.

It can't be said that Orson Welles is the greatest movie director of all time, although the evidence in his favor is there. Citizen Kane is his towering achievement, and that's not his only great film ...