Book review: Catching up with ‘Catching Bullets’
The first thing I noticed when I saw the cover to Mark O’Connell’s book Catching Bullets was its subtitle: Memoirs of a Bond Fan. I thought, You can do t...
Category: Films
Movie review — ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a confounding experience. Much of it is an enjoyable throwback to breezy action movies of yore, while some of it is as loathso...
FIRST LOOK AT SPECTRE
FIRST LOOK AT SPECTRE It looks like SPECTRE will have a definite OHMSS vibe.
Bond is back, but what about Blofeld?
In two days — Thursday, Dec. 4 — it will be confirmed that Christoph Waltz will appear in the next James Bond film, still called just Bond 24, but its title wil...
Film critic Jeffrey Westhoff remembers Roger Ebert
Film critic Jeffrey Westhoff remembers Roger Ebert I have found that the remembrance I wrote for the Northwest Herald when Roger Ebert died is still online.
‘Aladdin’ is Disney at its most magical
Critical wisdom holds that the best two films of Disney’s late-century animated renaissance are Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. I enjoy both films — a D...
An Incredible anniversary
disneypixar: Today is especially super. The Incredibles is 10? That is incredible.
‘Kenny & Co.’ This was Halloween
“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” So goes the familiar opening sentence of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. Brad...
Introducing ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’
On Oct. 14 (Roger Moore’s birthday) I hosted two screenings of The Spy Who Loved Me at the Elk Grove Theatre in Elk Grove Village, Ill. The event was part of th...
I still love ‘The Spy Who Loved Me,’ the movie that made me a Bond fan
I did not see The Spy Who Loved Me when it opened in July 1977. I was still in thrall of Star Wars that summer. Why would I want to see another movie when I cou...