Here is a good trivia question to ask. That question is, "What was the first sports movie to ever win Best Picture at the Oscars?" The movie with that special…

Let me tell you readers something about newspaper movies. They are generally about the excitement of the events that is occurring, but seldom do these kind of movies allow the…

Taxi Driver is truly the movie where director Martin Scorsese really comes into his own. 1973's Mean Streets did not really connect with me as it did with other people…

Stanley Kubrick has returned after his 1971's controversial success A Clockwork Orange with his tonally different 1975 feature, Barry Lyndon. His last feature was a movie that was ultra violent…

I will say this upfront. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is my favorite film of 1975 and is in my personal top ten films of all time. It's an…

I have a confession to make. As I was watching Dog Day Afternoon for this review, I realized my DVD copy was scratched and it would not play the last half of…

Jaws is one of cinema's most influential movies of all time. This film did wonders for the movie industry. It brought about the advent of the summer movie season, it…

Director Robert Altman impressed me with this two earlier directorial efforts M.A.S.H and McCabe and Mrs. Miller, but I believe he really comes into his own with 1975's Nashville. The…

"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart." Ah, those infamous words spoken in The Godfather Part II by Michael Corleone and those words…

I was not the biggest supporter of Martin Scorsese's first studio film, 1973's Mean Streets. That film had moments of brilliance and it proved the man would go on to…

Over the years, people have called Chinatown one of the best movies ever. I don't quite agree with that statement, but there is no denying that the movie is a…

If you have never seen The Sting before, my recommendation is to see it immediately. This is such a fun, wonderful movie and it's another example why 1973 was a…