Andy's Film Blog

Charlie was a once successful concert pianist who now plays in an out of the way dive in Paris. One day his ne'er-do-well brother comes ...

With the heightened consumerism and population boom following World War II led to the first time in our history when serious concerns were r...

Henry Fonda was an actor who brought a relatable sincerity to the screen, playing roles that carried truth that people could identify with. ...

On April 21, 1865 a train departed Washington, D.C. carrying the body of Abraham Lincoln. He would meet a grieving nation on the journey to ...

An American running a fishing charter in the Caribbean Isle of Martinique romances a young lounge singer and reluctantly becomes involved wi...

One of the main reasons that makes Abraham Lincoln such a fascinating historical figure is how unlikely he was. Lanky, rural, and lacking so...

After a tryst in a hotel room, a dissatisfied young woman returns to her job and impulsively steals $40,000 from her employer. Exhausted and...

Israel 'Cachao' López was an Afro-Cuban jazz musician who's influence was so great he has been called the Latin Louis Armstrong...

The Presidential Democratic Primary has come down to the state of Ohio and candidate Mike Morris (George Clooney) is looking like a lock for...

"It's a Wonderful Life" arrives on television every holiday season with the certainty of cookies and milk, and is met with ...

For "Bears of the Last Frontier", a program for the PBS "Nature" series, naturalist and bear expert Chris Morgan embar...

A British gangster is killed by a rival, better connected syndicate and Pinkie Brown, a ruthless upstart hood, is assigned along with his fe...

Steve Bartman deflecting a foul ball from the reach of Moises Alou in the 2003 NLCS   In 2003, it appeared that the Chicago Cubs would be...

A young teen begins to suspect that his recently moved in next door neighbor is a vampire, much to the disbelief of his aloof mother, oddbal...

In the fast moving Roaring 20s, one of its forgotten celebrities was Leonard Zelig, a human chameleon who would take on the appearance of...

When the mentor (Robert De Niro) of a British special ops agent (Jason Statham) is kidnapped by an oil sheik, the agent must spring into act...

A young, cinephile director tells the story of his latest production to the film's writer. Filming a true crime story, the director h...

Howard Hawks is one of those directors whose resume is so hard to recall because it is so versatile. Consider these classics and their genre...

After shooting an unarmed man during a melee at the saloon, the brother of a wealthy rancher is taken into custody by the local sheriff John...

In 1984 East Berlin the formidable secret police force, commonly referred to as the Stazi, kept surveillance on thousands of its citizens to...

A likable 27 year old living a normal ordered life receives a cancer diagnosis and begins to deal with an overbearing mother, a cold girlfri...

Richard III  is the most performed of all of Shakespeare's works and yet it is a very complex and challenging work that many are unfamil...

Shea Stadium was opened in 1964 in the Queens borough of New York City and was the home of the New York Mets, and for a time the New York Je...

Chuck Barris was known as the creator of inconsequential game shows such as "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game", a...

A choleric California eye doctor receives a call from an inspector from the south of France informing him that his son has been killed in an...