Category: Book/Movie Reviews

Background to the Book Stephen Birmingham, author of “The Grandees” seems to be as much of a goy as any. This is good because he is able to write without the blinding emotion that...

I am hardly the feminist by modern standards – my daughter and I startede watching old movies through the decades. We went with Singing in the Rain because it’s the best rated musical movie...

I finally watched another classic an frequently referenced movies, my daughter and I are up to the 1940s. First, why is it that so many movies of this era have some sort of cop...

Continuing the old movie ‘research’ with my daughter, we just completed Citizen Kane – it’s a movie about Donald Trump only more accurate to real life where having affairs and feeding the media with...

Having read some history about Charlie Chaplain though only seeing a Charlie Chaplain movie for the first time now, the theme of this movie seems quite related to his life – growing up dirt...

It’s been a while between my last old movie review and my latest – Gone with the Wind, 1939. There’s a good reason for this – the movie is a bit of beast. It’s...

Today’s old movie review – Phantom of the Opera, 1925. It’s a silent horror film which is surprisingly watchable and actually scary at times with very ominous music, great make-up, and well a faster...

Classic movie reviews for today – my daughter and I, during all this home time, have started watching movies from the 1910s forward: 1916 – Intolerance: This movie is a reaction to Griffith’s 1915...