Movies is Good: WAITING FOR GUFFMAN

 by JB

Besides giving us all of the other sweet, sweet films you have read about here all week, 1996 also gave us the first of Christopher Guest’s string of wonderful mockumentaries.

Movies is Good: Moments Out of Time 2021

 by JB

Time once again for the shots, sequences, and performances that now live in my brain, rent free.

Movies is Good: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

 by JB

“Behold his mighty hand...”

Movies is Good: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (And Women)

 by JB

“Butterfly in the sky
I can go twice as high
Just take a look,
It's in a book —

A reading rainbow!
I can go anywhere
With friends to know
And ways to grow.
A reading rainbow!”

Reading Rainbow theme song

Movies is Good: Simulate, Stimulate, Jostle

 by JB

I set out to write this column and not sound like an old coot. I failed.

Movies is Good: Ten Columns I Forgot I Wrote

 by JB

“Every one of them knew that as time went by
They'd get a little bit older and a little bit slower...”

--John Lennon, “Revolution #9”

Movies is Good: FOXY GRANDPA

 by JB

This week we take a deep dive into silent movie esoterica.

Movies is Good: Criterion, Criterion, Criterion

 by JB

Come with me now, as a man old enough to have collected shiny Criterion laser discs talks you through that top dog on that top rung of that ladder we call the top banana: this year’s Barnes & Noble Criterion sale-a-bration and ether frolic.

Movies is Good: Thirteen Great Gangster Movies

 by JB

I’m guessing my readers are well-versed in the classics of this particular genre— Your Godfathers, your Scarfaces, your Untouchableses. Here are some lesser-known, dynamite gangster flicks. Pow! Pow! Pow!

Movies is Good: 24-Hour Zombie-Thon!

 by JB

They won’t stay dead!

Movies is Good: Ten Sequels Better Than the Films That Spawned Them!

 by JB

The facts I speak this quiet morning on the F This Movie! website are indeed facts... and not opinions. They are incontrovertible as geometry to any enlightened community of minds.

Movies is Good: Some Thoughs on COFFY

 by JB

WARNING: This column will contain no puns based on the film’s title.

Movies is Good: '80s Action Picks!

 by JB

Welcome to Junesploitation! Some of you may NOT have decided on all of the terrific films you intend to watch this month, so here are some rare and hard-to-find choices for this, the Junesploitationiest of all days: ‘80s Action!

Movies is Good: ANIMAL HOUSE

 by JB

I cannot believe that in the 11-year history of this site, none of us have written about this crazy film.

Movies Is Good: What Month Is It?

 by JB

The pernicious pandemic persisted, and our petty perceptions of time putrefied...

Movies is Good: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY 4K

 by JB

This week I come riding into town on my horse, looking for a very specific grave while harmonicas and a female chorus scream on the soundtrack.

Movies is Good: THE PRODUCERS

 by JB

Turner Classic Movies ran their annual “31 Days of Oscar” thang last night... and lookee!

Movies is Good: DOCTOR X

 by JB

Sometimes the prescription doesn’t fit the crime.

Movies is Good Looks at Books

 by JB

You know, books... for when the internet is down.

Movies is Good: CROSSFIRE

 by JB

A film noir favorite finally makes its way to Blu-ray disc.