I like it when good people succeed. By all accounts, Josh Hartnett is a good guy. As far as I know, he’s never beaten up anyone. He’s never driven drunk. He’s never freebased cocaine naked in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge, and if he has, then I tip my hat to his crisis […]

If not for the atomic bomb, I might not be here. My father came of age during World War II. He trained to be a pilot in 1945, and even after Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker, the common wisdom was that a war was still on, that Japan would never surrender. The common […]

There aren’t that many movies that kicked off an entire sub-genre. I’ll concede that, prior to 1995, an awful lot of crime movies existed. You had your action flicks, your mobster movies, and your heist cinema, for example. Jimmy Cagney’s career was built on crime movies, and Marlon Brando won Oscars for On the Waterfront […]