Are racing movies also sports movies? I think so. Even when the focus is someone piloting a car, motorcycle, bicycle, scooter, hydrofoil, or hovercraft, those kinds of films share a great deal with the sports genre. So much so that they feel like a subgenre. At the end of the day, they share multiple tropes, […]

You can’t understand how massive Will Smith was, not unless you were there. These days, he’s still ubiquitous. My son, Liam, knows who he is, as do his friends. Will Smith is, to his generation, the same way that Frank Sinatra was to mine. He’s a celebrity, only one that isn’t a cultural driver the […]