NOTE: There may be insignificant spoilers. RIP, Robert Culp You may have missed this. Or, like thousands of others, didn’t recognize the name from the obit. He’s been chiefly remembered recently for his friendship with Bill Cosby and their joint pioneering efforts to break racial barriers in network TV in the mid 1960s. They did [...]

NOTE: There may be spoilers. Shutter Island There is no getting around the fact that a B movie is a B movie, even if it is made by Martin Scorsese. The question is whether it was intended as such. Since Scorsese doesn’t need to make homages to anyone, maybe he wanted to cast and direct [...]

BLACK SNAKE MOAN – Filmed in Memphis, 2005 WALK THE LINE – Filmed in Memphis, 2004 HUSTLE & FLOW – Filmed in Memphis, 2004 FORTY SHADES OF BLUE – Filmed in Memphis, 2004 21 GRAMS – Filmed in Memphis 2002 A PAINTED HOUSE – Filmed in Memphis 2002 THE POOR AND HUNGRY – Filmed in [...]

TOP MOVIES 2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox District 9 Avatar Sherlock Holmes (500) Days of Summer Up in the Air Inglorious Basterds Brothers Bloom Up Where the Wild Things Are (P.S. Henry Poole Is Here was on my must-see list last year but I only got to see this in January, 2009, and found it irresistible, [...]