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  • This Week's Review: "Without Remorse"

    A year or so ago, the Curmudgeon needed some lighter-than-usual reading and decided to reread the Tom Clancy volumes. I say “light” even though most of the books are so thick they can break your wrists if you …

  • This Week's Review: "Jesus of Nazareth"

    To paraphrase the Book of Ecclesiastes, “Of the making of biblical epics, there is no end.” Some curmudgeons would go so far as to describe “biblical epic” as a supreme oxymoron, but such films have had, and continue to …

  • This Week’s Review: “Quo Vadis”

    The Curmudgeon is still prowling through his older DVDs; for the Easter weekend, he indulged in two epics, “Quo Vadis” and “Jesus of Nazareth.” Both hold up despite their years. My memory is that “Quo Vadis” reached the …

  • This Week’s Review: “Ryan’s Daughter”

     The Curmudgeon has rows and rows of DVDs he hasn’t watched in a decade or so, so the quarantine is a good time to catch up with those. It now seems that he has been guilty for five …

  • This Week’s Review: “Color Out of Space”

    Believe it or not, the Curmudgeon has a new film to review; however, it will not be to everyone’s taste. The film in question, “Color Out of Space,” played a few days before the current pestilence closed all …

  • This Week’s Review: “The Maltese Falcon”

    I certainly saw several noir films in the late 1940s and early ’50s, but I was too young to really enjoy the genre and I did not see some of the classics until they began to appear on …

  • This Week's Review: “The Barchester Chronicles”

    As I said in an earlier review, the current medical crisis is good for those with an adequate supply of books and DVDs. I am now re-viewing the BBC’s massive adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s “Palliser” novels. Those who …

  • This Week’s Review: Books

    In a recent review, I raised the question of how the current medical crisis would affect theaters. I learned this morning, March 17, that AMC and Regal (Edwards) are closing down for the duration. Since Hollywood is holding …

  • This Week’s Review: “Glory”

    The weekend of March 7 had absolutely nothing that could entice a curmudgeon out of his lair, but, as would any respectable curmudgeon, he had plenty of books and DVDs with which to divert himself. It took much …