Confessions of a Not-So-Dangerous Mind*

Winner of 6 Oscars (inc. Best Picture and Best Director), One Battle After Another is a sprawling epic, a challenging film, quite difficult to classify, but absolutely worth seeing.

30+ years ago, I watched Rosemary's Baby at NYU, in "Color and Cinema." How I correctly identified legendary producer William Castle via his shocking cameo remains a mystery to this day 🤔😆

Peter Weir's unconventional dystopian nightmare not only predicts the future of tv,  but of "viral videos," "mass consumption of media," and the sense that we're all living in a giant fishbowl.

4x Oscar winner and "Hollywood's Last Icon" Clint Eastwood turned 96 on May 31st and according to his son, is retiring from the movie business.

The fan favorite "second sequel" to the iconic, Oscar-winning original opened May 28, 1982 and (against a $17 mil budget) grossed an astonishing $270 million worldwide. Join me a deep dive into the making of a classic.

Although I haven't been a diehard Knicks fan since the 1990s, here's to the 2026 NYK, as they prepare for the NBA finals.

Concluding our look back at the 5-film Dirty Harry Franchise with an exploration of the final entry, 1988's The Dead Pool.

Join me for a look at Larry Clark's controversial 1995 film Kids. Despite mixed reviews from critics, it was a significant boxoffice hit relative to cost, and co-stars Chloe Sevigny and Rosario Dawson (who I inexplicably blanked on during the ep) went on to great careers.

James Foley's terrific (and timeless) adaptation of David Mamet's 1983 play somehow feels specific to the early 1990s recession, which was ongoing as this film hit theaters. Irony alert, ppl watching the film for the first time circa 2008 said the exact same thing

The newest entry in our ongoing series is Mike Nichols unconventional 1994 "werewolf romance" Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer.