Confessions of a Not-So-Dangerous Mind*

The Best Buddy Movie Ever Made features dazzling 😂😆 chemistry between Robert DeNiro and the late Charles Grodin, who digs deep to author a memorable character in "white collar criminal" Jonathan Mardukas.

OTD 1972: Affirming his surprising Irish heritage, Muhammad Ali stops Alvin Lewis in Dublin. Decades later, the fight is immortalized in the 2012 docu When Ali Came to Ireland.

The newest entry in our ongoing series is John Badham's terrific, ahead-of-its-time suspense thriller WarGames.

A massive critical and commercial success, the latest collaboration between filmmaker Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan just landed on HBO Max. It's a brilliant film, a 9 out of 10, but left me cold and angry. Join me as I try to make sense of it all...

14 years ago this month, I visited Washington State for the first time. I saw and lived an awful lot during those ten days.

Rather than a birthday retrospective, let's take a look back at one of Ford's most successful non-franchise classics, Air Force One (1997). Apologies for the early "blips" in the audio. Sound is perfect from roughly the 3-min Mark forward.

The newest entry in our ongoing series finds the late great Jason Robards in a showy role as a wayward father and grandfather who wants to make things right before taking his final bow. Terrific, underseen comedy/drama from Neil Simon and Herbert Ross.

A Guilty Pleasure Classic that didn't ignite at the boxoffice, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane paved the way for incendiary standup comic Andrew Dice Clay to break into mainstream movies.

More than just a fun time at the cinema, In the Line of Fire is an action film, a suspense thriller, a romance, and a 😢 reminder that even legends aren't indestructible forever. Clint's turn as Frank Horrigan is arguably his finest work and he's matched by John Malkovich, digging deep to author a phenomenal supervillain.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone sat w/Harvey Levin for an interview, the idea of an "Action Heroes Mt. Rushmore" was discussed. Is it Arnold, Sly, Clint Eastwood, and Bruce Willis? Arnold, Bruce, Harrison Ford, and Tom Cruise? What about Mel Gibson, or Will Smith, or the OG James Bond, Sean Connery?