One of my favorite film books is The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930 by Scott Eyman. Published in 1997, it had the distinction of being one of the first books I ever ordered from Amazon.com. Aren't you glad to know that?...

As enamored as I am with the Hollywood studio era, the one genre with which I have never held much affinity or interest is that of the romantic melodrama. This means that I've seen far fewer movies with Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Greer Garson than...

We live in a country of 300 million people that is becoming more and more fractured every day, because the number of choices of how information and entertainment is delivered to them is growing by infinite proportions. The one thing common to most...

The leaf never falls from the tree, eh? In a display of strange symmetry, the folks at New Leaf Theatre have announced their latest Treehouse Reading: A play called Almost, Maine, which was originally scheduled to be part of the 2009-2010 season at the...