From the DVD Shelf: Amistad (1997)
My revisitation of the last decade-and-a-half of the films of Steven Spielberg continues! I’ve already looked at Jurassic Park and The Lost World, which brings me now to 1997’s Amistad. In an attempt to recapture the magic of 1993 (in which he released two films in a sin
Re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird in Honor of its 50th Anniversary
This past summer marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. That’s pretty amazing. Although I’d read the book several times in my life, it had been well over a decade (probably closer to fifteen years) since the last time, s
News Around the Net
Quint over at AICN has posted an amazing, career-spanning interview with the extraordinarily talented Drew Struzan. Mr. Struzan has illustrated many of the most iconic movie posters of the last several decades — posters I’m sure you’d recognize for all of the India
From the DVD Shelf: The Lost World (1997)
Last week I began my look back at the last decade-and-a-half of Steven Spielberg films with Jurassic Park. Now my project to revisit all of the films that Mr. Spielberg has made since 1993 — films that, with the exception of Saving Private Ryan, I have only seen once — c