Hello, at last…

Posted June 17, 2013 by Ed Goldberg

I am finally beginning to post written reviews on the All Classical website.  Many people have taken me to task for my failure to blog about movies, but all things... More

After Earth – A Better Movie Brought To You By Ron Hubbard Than…

Posted June 1, 2013 by Mona Bowen

Battlefield Earth, but that’s not saying much.  M. Night must have had a metronome by him as he was sitting in the director’s chair, because he sure hit all the... More

Falling Forward

Posted May 29, 2013 by D. K. Holm

 Click on this link to view the Becoming Traviata trailer Outsiders tend to forget how much work goes into plays, movies, and operas. Perhaps operas even more, given that they juggle... More

Crime Beat

Posted March 31, 2013 by D. K. Holm

If the cliché is that television is now better than movies, then British television is still better than American television, with Danish TV a close hot second. Though often visually... More

Tone Deaf

Posted by D. K. Holm

Halle Berry seems to be suffering from what is properly known as the Best Actress Curse. This states that all the subsequent films by an actress who wins best or... More

Fallen Arches

Posted by D. K. Holm

  What justifies the continued existence of Gerard Butler on our screens? He has made some 50 films, and the only a couple of them have cracked $100 million, one of... More

Too Little Information

Posted January 25, 2013 by D. K. Holm

Filling out the slowly expanding filmography of Alfred Hitchcock, the Criterion Collection has issue Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much. Though out of copyright, and with numerous platters of... More

Chain of Fools

Posted December 15, 2012 by D. K. Holm

Django Unchained is the first "Obama movie." It's a film made by a white person who facilitates and endorses African-American rage at injustice. The film is sure to scare the pants... More

Ice Follies

Posted December 2, 2012 by D. K. Holm

There are many ways that the makers of Chasing Ice could have presented their material. They could have focused on the history of the earth and its atmosphere, perhaps backed with a... More

There At the New Yorker

Posted November 13, 2012 by D. K. Holm

The inner workings of the New Yorker magazine have fascinated readers nearly since the publication's inception, and chronicles by various insiders have ranged from a bucolic catalog of eccentrics in books by... More