Same Song, Different Movie: Theme From A Summer Place by Max Steiner
This is the next entry in a series from early 2012 that looks at the use of “needle dropped” songs, many of them popular tunes, in movies. Specifically,…
My Top Ten Greatest Science-Fiction Movie Endings
Almost like clockwork, my friend and author John Kenneth Muir announced another of his Reader Top Ten list collaborations. And it’s a doozy, folks: “The question…
Reprise: It’s the Little Things in Wyler’s The Big Country
A couple of years back, my umpteenth viewing of one of my all-time favorite westerns on Turner Classic Movies, William Wyler’s The Big Country, had the whole family…
Versus AFI: 10 Top 10 – Epics
Without a doubt, The American Film Institute has the gift for generating opinions among fans and film aficionados. If you’re unaware, the AFI is a non-profit organization created…
It Rains... You Get Wet 