"If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here."

NOTE: Ranked No. 83 on my all-time top 100 of 2012 "It's just a satire on the way people behave in the movie studios. There was su...

Read More

Bringing Up Babs

By Damian Arlyn I remember working in the video store one day when a regular customer came in to check out a few titles. He glanced at the e...

Read More

Re-fighting the Cold War

BLOGGER'S NOTE : This piece originally posted Jan. 3, 2007. I'm re-running it today to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of ...

Read More

A soul is never lost, no matter what overcoat you put on

By Edward Copeland As people who read me regularly know, it takes a lot to get me to see a remake of a movie I deemed very good or better b...

Read More

Tom Aldredge (1928-2011)

When I was just beginning my years of obsessive New York theatergoing, the second Broadway show I took in was the last new Stephen Sondheim ...

Read More

This one's for all us little brains

By Edward Copeland Six years had transpired since Albert Brooks released the last film he co-wrote and directed, Lost in America , when Def...

Read More