Category Archives: Documentaries

A recent Australian study found that the critical age for optimal childhood happiness, the age when we feel most protected yet most hopeful about the world, is 10. Thus, it stands to reason that the decade when one was that magic age would be deemed the “best” decade. Simple nostalgia dictates that. This reviewer wasContinue reading “Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made”

Star Wars is many things to many people: The umpteenth retelling of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth set in space; a sci-fi flick influenced by Westerns, Flash Gordon serials and Kurosawa films; a silly bit of fluff; the greatest film of all time. Star Wars is all that and more. Love it, hate it or indifferent, theContinue reading “ELSTREE 1976”