Raconteur Report

Beetlejuice (Warner Brothers, 1988) Michael Keaton as the all-time Ghostest With The Mostest, as envisioned by Tim Burton, with special e...

Monster Squad (Tristar, 1987) A treehouse full of youngsters at the right place, at the right time, and with the right weapons to save th...

Young Frankenstein (20th C. Fox, 1974) Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder send up Mary Shelley in the classic comedy spoof about a large zipper-h...

Krippendorf's Tribe (Touchstone, 1998) Well-delivered farce with Richard Dreyfuss as a harried anthropologist who delivers a faux tri...

Twelve O'clock High (20th C. Fox, 1949) Masterpiece production about a B-17 group in England early in WWII. Gregory Peck as the study...

Tombstone (Hollywood Pictures, 1993) To commemorate the 132nd anniversary of the Shootout at the OK Corral, the best movie by far dealing...

I've been following Bill Whittle's stuff since shortly after he started posting it online. I absolutely love it, and recommend him t...

Rob Roy (United Artists, 1995) Honor and swordplay on the Scottish highlands, with Liam Neeson as the titular hero, and Tim Roth as the h...

North By Northwest (MGM, 1959) Hitchcock's other perfect suspense-thriller, with sensibilities from Kafka and moves from Harold Lloyd...

To Catch A Thief (Paramount, 1954) Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in Hitchcock's masterpiece thriller. Audiences in the 1950s didn't ...

A Shock To The System (Corsair Pictures, 1990) Michael Caine as the consummate sorcerer of the black arts of revenge and murder. An engag...

3 Days Of The Condor (Paramount, 1975) Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max Von Sydow in an all-time great spy tale, di...

Yesterday into this morning, I had an experience for the second time in the last 5 years: fever, chills and body aches, coming on rapidly, ...

The Sea Hawk (Warner Bros., 1940) Errol Flynn, directed by Michael Curtiz for the 10th time, in one of the most lavish swashbuckling movi...

Rollerball (United Artists, 1975) James Caan stars in Norman Jewison's futuristic dystopia, where corporations rule, and the titular ...

Patton (20th C. Fox, 1970) George C. Scott would be 86 today (he passed away in 1999). This film earned 8 Academy Awards, including Best...

The Package (Orion, 1989) Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, and Tommy Lee Jones, in a taut end-of-the-Cold-War political thriller. Doing an...

Today's Flick Pick: The Truman Show (Paramount, 1998) Again, Jim Carrey as the unwitting star of an elaborate whole-life reality sh...

The quintessential art form of the last century, and probably the next tidy period to come, is the motion picture. Tellingly, America not o...

Today's topic is true in any number of fields of endeavor, from warfare to politics to survival, or all of the above, by which I refer t...