Tail Pop A Hairy Situation: Falling in Love Again with ‘King Kong’ April 3, 2025 By Kevin McMahon I f you were a boy in the 1950s, growing up in the New Jersey suburbs, and […]
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Features Just Kidding: A Generation Later, ‘Parenthood’ Still Brings It All Back Home July 22, 2024 Though we GenXers might look back on our favorite ’80s films with some chagrin, “Parenthood” (1989) holds up. […]
Tail Pop Why Fox Nearly Pulled the Plug On the Original ‘Star Wars,’ the Biggest Space Epic of All Time February 9, 2024 The lights came on… Shock. Silence. “Oh man, we’re just working on a schlock low-budget Roger Corman sci-fi,” we thought. […]
Features ‘So Glad You’re Here’: Sharing Mom’s Last Days with ‘The Incredibles’ November 6, 2023 It’s an all-time personal favorite. It was also the last movie I watched with my mom. […]
Columns Words Like Bullets: How ‘Sweet Smell’ Met with Success March 28, 2022 Why ‘Sweet Smell’ Succeeded […]
Tail Pop Coming Out: Growing up with ‘Saving Face’ January 23, 2023 By Donna J. Choo I grew up in Hawai‘i, on the island of O‘ahu, where my moviegoing love began at […]
Columns Kiss Me, Deadly: The Life Lessons of Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ July 7, 2022 One of my earliest memories is of my mother taking me into Manhattan from Brooklyn one gloomy morning, on a subway train crossing the East River. […]
Columns TAIL POP: The Enduring Wisdom of Indiana Jones May 3, 2022 The enduring wisdom of Indiana Jones […]
Features TAIL POP: The Enduring Influence of Jean-Luc Godard and ‘Band of Outsiders’ July 8, 2021 I grew up in a Long Island suburb among people about whom a friend once said, “If they can’t eat it or wear it, they don’t want it.” […]