Salon has a fascinating interview with Matthew Cohen, an expert in movie titles. Four letters can tell you everything you need to know: “Jaws” Some other memorable one-word titles: “Titanic,” “Grease,” “Fargo,” “Elf,” “Blow,” “Amadeus,” “Goldfinger” Some movie titles use [...]
Roger Ebert has a superb rebuttal to Andrew O’Hehir’s review of “Secretariat” in Salon. Ebert is careful to say that he respects O’Hehir but that this review goes far beyond the usual disagreements about taste and aesthetics. O’Hehir read into [...]
Movies inspire passion and I love this collection of posters designed by passionate fans. Not all were for real movies — some were for movies the artists would like to see and some were loving tweaks on favorite themes and [...]
A beautiful tribute to book, television, and movie critic John Leonard in Salon has this lovely quote from him about the books he loved: My whole life I have been waving the names of writers. From these writers, for almost [...]