One Eternal Day

Those of us who value The Narnia Chronicles have already read enough to be dubious about Netflix's upcoming 2027 version of The Magicia...

I've been reading and enjoying The Narnia Chronicles for a very long time. They are great children's books and, like all good child...

From another essay in  The Free Press series, "Things Worth Remembering." I do remember a time when my parents didn't really ...

From Ben Mankiewicz in "Hollywood’s Golden Era Still Has Lessons for America" : Think of Hollywood’s Golden Age as the era from 19...

Kyle Smith didn't much care for  Pressure , a film about the preparation for D-Day which I had been hoping to like. Not so much, now. A ...

Gene Autry's "Cowboy Code" for his young fans: The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage...

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) is available on Amazon Prime for a modest rental fee and on YouTube, also for a fee. If you've never seen it...

The most recent Five Books interview is about the "best books" about the sinking of the  Titanic . One of the selections is A Nig...

Robert Duvall has died.  He was a great actor and was in several of my favorite films. Some years ago, at the beginning of Lent, John Nolte ...

Hitchcock is the director whose films I rewatch most often. I enjoy some of the early British movies, especially The Thirty-Nine Steps and ...

In the mail yesterday arrived a 4K Blu-ray of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974) from Kino Lorber. Watched it last n...

At NRO, Giancarlo Sopo recommends "What to Watch on the Fourth of July." I really like this one and I think I'll watch it ton...

I did enjoy his novels, especially  Day of the Jackal and Dogs of War (both made into excellent films). He also narrated the BBC series S...

I'm not sure when I first discovered Elmore Leonard, but it was after the time he was writing Westerns (but I do have DVDs of some films...

Occasioned by a new release of Richard Lester's Three Musketeers comes a review of a film I thoroughly enjoyed in a theater when it wa...

Comparing the 2025 Snow White to the one released in 1937, Disney's first full-length animated film: .... The 2025 film brazenly remov...

I loved this, on Oliver Stone's film : Stone’s film — one of the great cinematic achievements of the 1990s — has a grasp of history that...

Clifton Webb was one of the actors I really enjoyed from the studio era. He starred in several very good films, including  Laura , one of th...

Alec Guinness is one of my favorite actors. Not the Alec Guinness of Star Wars , particularly, but the Guinness of the Ealing comedies, or ...

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was one of those films—spectacular, but (more or less) based on history—that enthralled teenage me (another was A...