Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death)

Come to think of it, the capacity of Scott’s “minist’ring angel” to be beastly to her menfolk and even more beastly to other women has always been comic.

Abbott and Costello bump people off

Yet another nostalgic invocation of the hippie dream, though at least this one doesn’t pretend to be sexually innocent

Mel, we may love you for the enemies you’ve made, but your movie is still a mess

There is a scene in October Sky, directed by Joe Johnston, when the four “Rocket Boys” from Coalwood, West Virginia., inspired by the sight of Sputnik streaking through the night sky, are setting off one of their rockets. On a sylvan road beside the launch site there appears an original, 1958 Corvette convertible in red…

Another cinematic exercise in drinking deep from the intoxicating stream of popular paranoia