LOVER COME BACK

DORIS DAY AND ROCK HUDSON MADE ONLY 3 FILMS TOGETHER, BUT THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION SEEMS TO BE THAT THEY JOINED AT THE HIP THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE 50S AND 60S. OF THE 3 FILMS, LOVER COME BACK IS MY FAVORITE. IT IS ABOUT AS CLOSE TO A GENUINE SCREWBALL COMEDY AS THERE IS IN ANY TIME REMOVED FROM THE 30S, THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE SCREWBALL COMEDY. LOVER HAS AN AMUSING, INVOLVING STORY AND A WITTY SCRIPT AND DAY AND HUDSON ABETTED BY THE INIMITABLE TONY RANDALL ARE AT THE TOP OF THEIR GAME.THERE IS GOOD WORK HERE BY A STRONG SUPPORTING CAST, ESPECIALLY EDIE ADAMS, WHO RARELY HAD A BETTER OPPORTUNITY IN THE MOVIES THAN HERE.LOVER MOVES AT A GOOD, FAST PACE AND RARELY STALLS. IT IS PURE ESCAPIST ENTERTAINMENT, BUT THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT WHEN IT IS HONESTLY THIS GOOD.

XANTHASOMA LINDENII

THIS CHOICE AROID IS CONSTANTLY BEING RENAMED AND RECLASSIFIED AND IS SOMETIMES CALLED CALADIUM LINDENII AND I HAVE EVEN SEEN IT LABELLED PHILODENDRON LINDENII.IT HAS BEAUTIFUL VARIEGATED LEAVES AND LOVES THE WARM WEATHER. WILL GROW IN THE GROUND IN A WARM, HUMID, WELL MULCHED AREA AND CAN GET MODERATELY LARGE. MINE HAS BEEN MORE SUCCESSFUL IN LARGE POTS AND EVEN HANGING BASKETS. IT WAS ONCE PRETTY RARE, BUT TISSUE-CULTURING HAS CHANGED ALL THAT AND NOW MANY MORE CAN ENJOY ITS WINNING BEAUTY.

HANGOVER SQUARE

HANGOVER SQUARE FEATURES THE NEARLY FORGOTTEN LAIRD CREGAR IN HIS ONLY STARRING ROLE AND HE IS WONDERFUL IN THIS EXCELLENT SUSPENSE FILM. CREGAR DIED IN HIS EARLY THIRTIES AND MADE ONLY A HANDFUL OF FILMS; BUT HE IS SPECTACULAR IN EVERY SINGLE ONE. WHEN HE IS ON THE SCREEN, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONCENTRATE ON ANYONE ELSE, SO STRONG ARE HIS ACTING SKILLS AND CHARISMA. THIS WORK, CREGAR'S LAST, IS ENTERTAINING AND ABSORBING FROM START TO FINISH. IT BENEFITS FROM GOOD PERFORMANCES BY ALL, ESPECIALLY GEORGE SANDERS, LINDA DARNELL, ALAN NAPIER, AND FAYE MARLOWE.THE LATTER ACTRESS MADE ONLY A HANDFUL OF FILMS, TOO, AND THIS IS HER BEST. SHE IS ALSO STILL ALIVE AND ON THE DVD COMMENTARY, WHICH IS A REAL PLUS. THIS MOVIE HAS A TERRIFIC SENSE OF TIME AND PLACE WITH WONDERFUL SETS AND ART DECORATION AND THERE IS ALSO A MARVELOUS BERNARD HERRMANN SCORE. HERRMAN WAS ONE OF MOVIE MUSIC'S VERY GREATEST TALENTS. VERY FEW PEOPLE KNOW A THING ABOUT THIS WINNING FILM, SO THE PROOF IS IN THE DISCOVERY.AFTER THOUGHT: IF THERE HAD EVER BEEN A BIOGRAPHICAL FILM OF CREGAR'S LIFE, RAYMOND BURR WOULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT TO PLAY THE LEAD. THERE IS A STRONG PHYSICAL RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE TWO MEN.

BEGONIA MANICATA AUREA MACULATA

BEGONIA MANICATA AUREA

MACULATA IS ONE OF THOSE BEGONIAS ONE SEES A LOT OF IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AND NOT SO MUCH IN OTHERS. IT SEEMS TO DO ESPECIALLY WELL IN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA WHERE THE AMERICAN BEGONIA SOCIETY OFTEN HOLDS ITS ANNUAL MEETINGS. THE PLANT IS A A BIT OF A CHALLENGE IN FLORIDA, BUT WORTH EVERY EFFORT. A WELL GROWN SPECIMAN IS A KNOCK OUT AND WILL ATTRACT THE EYE FROM A GREAT DISTANCE. IN FLORIDA, CAREFUL WATERING AND GOOD AIR CIRCULATION ARE MUSTS. MY GREATEST SUCCESS WITH PROPAGATION HAS BEEN BY DIVISIONS. FOR ME, THESE CAN BE RATHER SLOW TO ESTABLISH, BUT, AGAIN, WORTH EVERY EFFORT AND THE WAIT.

KING KONG 1933

THERE IS NO QUESTION AT ALL THAT THE ORIGINAL KING KONG IS THE GRANDFATHER OF ALL MONSTER -SLASH-HORROR MOVIES AND HAS NEVER BEEN EQUALLED EVEN AFTER DECADES OF TRYING. THE REMAKES (TWO, NO LESS) ARE AT BEST ADEQUATE MOVIES, BUT TOTALLY LACKING IN THE SPECIAL MAGIC OF THIS UNFORGETTABLE CLASSIC. MANY TODAY DERIDE WHAT THEY CONSIDER PRIMITIVE SPECIAL EFFECTS, BUT A CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF THE WORK IN THIS ORIGINAL SHOWS THE MAGIC HOLDS UP EXTRAORDINARILY WELL. WHAT MAKES THIS UNDISPUTED CLASSIC SO WONDERFUL IS THE REAL SENSE OF AWE AND BELIEF IT MANAGES TO GENERATE. AN AUDIENCE WILLINGLY SUSPENDS DISBELIEF AND LETS THE MOVIE AND ALL ITS WONDERS CONSUME THEM. AND IT'S A WONDERFUL CONSUMPTION! KING KONG IS, A SUPER VALENTINE TO SO MANY THINGS RANGING FROM ADVENTURE AT ITS BEST TO THE GLORIES OF NEW YORK CITY. A TOTALLY UNFORGETTABLE FILM THAT NEVER LETS GO.

STENANDRIUM LINDENII

STENANDRIUM LINDENNI IS A WONDERFUL LITTLE PLANT FROM THE ACANTHUS FAMILY, WHICH I GREW FOR YEARS, BUT LOST AND CAN NO LONGER FIND. IT USED TO BE EVERYWHERE FROM BUILDING SUPPLY NURSERIES TO REGULAR PLANT SOURCES, BUT HAS DISAPPEARED. SMALL, AND EASY TO PROPAGATE, THIS BEAUTIFULLY MARKED PLANT WITH VIVID YELLOW BLOOMS IS FROM PERU AND WILL EVEN GROW WELL AS A GROUND COVER IN TROPICAL SETTINGS, ESPECIALLY UNDER BENCHES IN A WARM GREENHOUSE. IF SOMEONE LOCATES A SOURCE FOR THIS SEEMINGLY LOST PLANT, SHARE YOUR INFORMATION. MANY WILL WANT TO GROW IT AGAIN OR FOR THE FIRST TIME.

INVADERS FROM MARS

THERE ARE MANY REALLY SUPER SC-FI FILMS FROM THE 50S, THE GOLDEN AGE FOR THIS GENRE, TO DATE ANYWAY, AND ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE, A MOVIE THAT REALLY STAYS WITH YOU AND HAUNTS YOUR DREAMS EVEN IS INVADERS FROM MARS. THOUGH MADE ON THE MOST MINUSCULE OF BUDGETS, YOU'D NEVER KNOW IT. DIRECTOR, WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES--NOTED FOR HIS WORK ON "GONE WITH THE WIND" USES HIS IMAGINATION AND FULL COMPLEMENT OF ARTISTIC SENSES IN INCREDIBLE WAYS TO PRESENT THIS DREAM LIKE (NIGHTMARE?) FILM. A LITTLE BOY SEES A FLYING SAUCER LAND...OR DID HE? NO ONE REALLY BELIEVES HIM UNTIL SOME VERY STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN. UNLIKE "DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL," WHERE THE ALIENS WERE POSITIVELY BENEVOLENT, THE MARTIANS HERE ARE DEFINITELY NOT AN EARTHLING'S FRIEND. THE VARIED CAST OF PROS ENTERS INTO THE FULL SPIRIT OF THIS NARRATIVE. HILLARY BROOKE, SO GOOD IN MANY ICE QUEEN ROLES, GETS TO PLAY THAT ROLE HERE PART OF TIME ALTERNATING WITH A RARE ROLE FOR HER, A LOVING MOTHER. DEPENDABLE LEIF ERICKSON IS THE FATHER AND HELENA CARTER--A BEAUTY, WHO MADE TOO FEW FILMS, AND B-REGULAR, ARTHUR FRANZ, GIVE STEADY SUPPORT. JIMMY HUNT, NOT A GREAT CHILD ACTOR, BUT VERY NATURAL, IS THE LITTLE BOY. AND, OF COURSE, FEW SC-FI FILMS OF THE 50S WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT GOOD OLD MORRIS ANKRUM, HERE AS HIS USUAL AUTHORITY FIGURE SELF. THERE IS ALSO AN APPEARANCE BY MILBURN STONE ,NOT LONG BEFORE HE WOULD PLAY DOC ON THE TV SERIES, "GUNSMOKE". INVADERS IS A FILM THAT CLINGS LIKE GLUE TO THE MEMORY.IN MANY WAYS, IT IS A UNIQUE MOVIE EXPERIENCE.

BEGONIA GOEGOENSIS

BEGONIA GOEGOENSIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLANTS IN ALL THE WORLD. MANY WHO SEE IT DESCRIBE ITS STUNNING PATTERNS AS LIKE A GOLDEN SPIDERWEB. ITS LEAVES ARE AMONG THE MOST DISTINCTIVE NOT ONLY AMONG ALL BEGONIAS, BUT FROM ANY PLANT FAMILY. AN ADDED BONUS IS ITS SPRAYS PF PINK FLOWERS; BUT HERE THE LEAVES ARE ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. SINCE GOEGOENSIS IS FROM SUMATRA--DISCOVERED IN THE LATE 1800S, IT REQUIRES HEAT. I HAVE DONE BEST WITH THIS PLANT IN A LARGE TERRARIUM, BUT IT CAN BE GROWN OUTSIDE IN FLORIDA IN THE MORE HUMID PARTS OF THE YEAR. PROTECT FROM TOO MUCH RAIN, OF COURSE.

BRIDE OF FRANKSTEIN

THE BRIDE OF FRANKSTEIN IS A HORROR MOVIE AS GOOD AS IT GETS. OF COURSE, THIS FILM IS FAR MORE THAN A HORROR MOVIE. IT IS AN EXTREMELY WITTY, VIGOROUSLY ACTED BLACK COMEDY AND ONE THAT HAS A BRAIN EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, AND WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING FRANKENSTEIN'S BRAIN. THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON HERE THAT MULTIPLE VIEWINGS ARE A MUST. JAMES WHALE WAS A GIFTED DIRECTOR, WHOSE LEGACY GOT A GOOD, POSITIVE JOLT WITH THE MORE RECENT MOVIE ABOUT HIS LIFE, "GODS AND MONSTERS". BRIDE IS DAZZLING CINEMA FROM FIRST TO LAST. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS MOVIE WORKS FULL TILT FROM THE WONDERFUL MUSIC TO SPECTACULAR SETS AND ART DECORATION. A CLASSIC FEAST THAT ONE NEVER WILL FORGET.

CRYPTANTHUS WARASII

CRYPTANTHUS ARE A WONDERFUL FAMILY OF BROMELIADS THAT OFFER REWARDS TO ANY GARDENER. THEY ARE TROPICAL AND DON'T LIKE COLD WEATHER, BUT CAN BE GROWN INSIDE IN GOOD LIGHT AND UNDER PLANT LIGHTS, WHICH I HAVE DONE SUCCESSFULLY FOR YEARS. THEY ARE GROWN FOR THEIR EXTREMELY VERSATILE AND VARIED FOLIAGE RATHER THAN THEIR SMALL, BUT ATTRACTIVE FLOWERS. IN MY EXPERIENCE, THEY LIKE TO BE FED REGULARLY FOR BEST RESULTS AND THEY WANT TO BE MOIST, BUT WELL DRAINED--TRUE FOR ALMOST ALL PLANTS...PERIOD. THEY CAN BE USED OUTSIDE IN POTS, IN THE GROUND, ESPECIALLY ROCK GARDENS AND THEY WILL DO WELL IN DISH GARDENS, IF CHOSEN WELL WITH OTHER COMPANION PLANTS. THEY WILL EVEN GROW IN TERRARIUMS PRETTY WELL AND NOT OUTGROW THE SPACE AS MANY OTHER SO CALLED TERRARIUM PLANTS WILL. PICTURED ONE OF MY VERY FAVORITES, C. WARASII, A RARER VARIETY AND A VERY SLOW GROWER, BUT A LOVELY LITTLE PLANT.

AECHMEA DICHLAMYDEA VAR. TRINITENSIS

I SUPPOSE IF I WAS ACTUALLY FORCED TO PICK ONE FAMILY OF TROPICAL PLANTS THAT I LOVED THE VERY BEST, BROMELIADS WOULD BE THE FIRST AMONG EQUALS. AND THERE ARE FEW BROMELIADS I LOVE BETTER THAN THIS WONDERFUL BEAUTY. THIS IS A VERY LARGE PLANT WITH A BLOOM SPIKE THAT CAN TOP A YARDSTICK AND ONE WHICH LASTS FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. ONCE YOU HAVE A STAND OF THIS--AND YOU'LL NEED SPACE, IT MULTIPLIES DEPENDABLY, THOUGH NOT AGRESSIVELY, AND BLOOMS EVERY YEAR PRETTY MUCH ON AN APRIL TO JUNE SCHEDULE AT MY FLORIDA LOCATION. SOME HAVE CALLED THIS THE PATRIOTIC PLANT AND MANY CONFUSE THIS BROMELIAD WITH AECHMEA FENDLERI AND ITS VARIOUS HYBRIDS, BUT THIS IS A UNIQUE PLANT. ALL THAT WOULD MAKE IT BETTER IS FOR A VARIEGATED FORM TO CROP UP. IT'S A TROPICAL PLANT THAT ONCE SEEN IS NEVER EASILY FORGOTTEN.

EVE ARDEN

ANY FILM IN WHICH EVE ARDEN APPEARS IS GUARANTEED A FEW MOMENTS OF GREAT ENTERTAINMENT. THERE ARE FEW ACTRESSES IN FILM HISTORY WHO WERE MORE LIKELY TO ENLIVEN WHAT WAS SOMETIMES VERY ROUTINE MATERIAL THAN THIS WONDERFUL ACTRESS, WHOSE DRY WIT AND SUPERLATIVE TIMING COULD ZING WITH THE BEST OF THEM. THERE ARE A LOT OF MEDIOCRE FILMS IN ARDEN'S FILMOGRAPHY, BUT NO MEDIOCRE PERFORMANCES. SHE WAS PRETTY MUCH A SECOND STRING ACTRESS TILL HER TV SHOW, "OUR MISS BROOKS", MADE HER A STAR, BUT SHE ALSO DID MANAGE TO APPEAR IN SOME VERY GOOD FILMS ALONG TO WAY TO STARDOM. "STAGE DOOR", "COVER GIRL" AND "MILDRED PIERCE" ARE SOME OF HER BEST. ARDEN WORKED WITH EVERYONE WHO EVER MATTERED IN HOLLYWOOD FROM THE MARX BROTHERS AND LUCILLE BALL TO JAMES STEWART, CARY GRANT AND JOAN CRAWFORD. SHE WAS NOMINATED FOR HER WORK IN "MILDRED PIERCE," BUT LOST AND NEVER DID WIN AN ACADEMY AWARD, A TERRIBLE OVERSIGHT. BUT HER TV WORK GAINED HER AN EMMY. MANY OF HER FILMS ARE AVAILABLE AND A LOT OF THE RADIO SHOWS OF "OUR MISS BROOKS". STRANGLEY, THE TV VERSION OF "OUR MISS BROOKS" STILL IS NOT READILY AVAILABLE ON DVD EXCEPT FOR A FEW ISOLATED, BADLY COPIED PUBLIC DOMAIN DISCS. EVE ARDEN IS AN ACTRESS TO SEARCH OUT AND ENJOY AT EVERY POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY.

BEGONIA CARAVAN

Begonia Caravan (Serlis) is one of the most beautiful of all begonias. Not super easy to grow for me in Florida, but possible with some attention. Good air circulation, good watering practices and proper humidity. It will grow in a terrarium, but you will need a large one. However, it also makes a lovely basket and can even be grown in the ground, if attention is paid to the area, which has appropriate water, light and some mulching. The leaves are fragile and easily damaged, so this is a consideration for any chosen site.

THE AWFUL TRUTH

The Awful Truth is another of Hollywood's greatest comedies, a movie that no one who loves movies can fail to discover and ultimately love. It is the film that finally made Cary Grant a star after years of coming close, and it also stars Irene Dunne, an incredibly under-rated and now nearly forgotten star of the first rank. Her range from sparkling comedies such as this an "Theodora Goes Wild" to "Showboat" (1936--the undisputed best version) and "Anna and the King of Siam" (the progenitor to "The King and I") and on to soap operas and dramas ,"I Remember Mama" is just phenonenal. She really was that rarest of actresses who could nearly do it all. The supporting cast in this sophisticated, ultra-witty piece includes Ralph Bellamy in one of his best "guy loses the girl" roles and the droll and irresistible Cecil Cunningham, who made too few films. There, of course is the dog, Mr. Smith, played by the same dog from "The Thin Man" movies. "The Awful Truth" had a checkered history with everyone thinking they were working on a disaster at the time. Instead, the results are golden, not only one of the greatest screen comedies, but one of the rarest of Hollywood films that actually looks seriously at love, sex and marriage and all their complicated permutations. Must see viewing.

MONOCOSTUS UNIFLORA

Gingers have been around a long time and become increasingly popular with gardeners as time goes on. One of the nicest is the lovely little gem, Monocostus uniflora a ginger which stays small and can be grown in pots easily. It has a long blooming period with very charming dark lemon yellow flowers. It is a little tender to the cold, but can be protected easily enough, even if planted in the ground. Even if it is cut back from the cold, it will usually come back from a bad winter patch, though sometimes not as vigorously as before. It divides and propagates very easily. So what it comes down to is: what is there not to love about this tropical treasure?

MARY ASTOR --ACTRESS SUPREME

Actress Mary Astor, whom I alluded to from her great work in "The Palm Beach Story", had an astonishing career that started in the silents and included a lot of very good television work. In between, she is remembered for her appearances in numerous classics, notably "The Maltese Falcon", "The Great Lie", for which she won an Academy Award and held her own with Bette Davis, no easy thing. She also appeared in "Dodsworth", a great 30s classic, "Meet Me In St.Louis" and in a remake of "Little Women". In between these landmarks, she played just about every kind of role, large and small and any film in which she appeared improved immeasurably however humble the material. She also wrote novels and survived much personal scandal retiring in the 60s after playing a small but critical role in another Bette Davis film, "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte." Any movie fan seeking out her work will be in for a wonderful time.

PEARCEAS -CHALLENGING GESNERIADS

Pearceas are very interesting gesneriads, but there is little in literature about them and they can be a great challenge to grow. I have tried several in outside situations, inside under lights and in terrariums. All grow well for a time, but eventually have problems that have been difficult to diagnose or get help with. Pearcea hypocrtiflora is one of the most beautiful of this genus or any gesneriad genus for that matter, but you have your work cut out in keeping it going. Over time, my attempts at this plant eventually met with failure. It looks terrific for long periods. Some sources report it will resprout after a rest period, but I did not find that to be the case and saved one pot for more than a year--living in forlorn hope.

THE PALM BEACH STORY

Preston Sturges made only a handful of movies, but all of them are interesting and worth seeing, which cannot be said about many directors' bodies of work. I personally think The Palm Beach Story is his masterpiece, though many others would not agree. I give The Lady Eve as right up beside Palm Beach Story. But PBS is a movie one can watch multiple times even so much that you eventually know whole patches of dialogue and yet still find new things to love about it. It is screwball comedy at its very best and one of Hollywood's greatest films ever. It is sad that none of the principals--most of whom lived to be quite old--got interviewed for extras on the videos and discs that are available because it is the kind of movie that you want to know more and more about. The cast is exemplary. One of the great things about almost all movies from the so-called golden age is how much more carefully they were cast than many films of today are. Every r0le in this film has been very meticuluously attended. It was an age of great character acting anyway, but here even the tiny roles such as a maid or train porter with only one or two lines get super careful attention and pay off beautifully. Claudette Colbert was never better than here. Nor Joel McCrea and Rudy Vallee also does some of his best screen work in PBS, probably his very best. The redoubtable Mary Astor, whose range was astonishing and who remains a greatly under-rated actress, is not to be missed.The Sturges stock company--a group of great actors who appeared in virtually all of his films, are in excellent form here. Many have only minutes of screen time, but you don't forget their work, which is a great tribute to screen directing and writing as well as the acting. PBS for all its lightness, even down right silliness sometimes, is wonderfully life-affirming and gives anyone who sees it a huge pick up. It's really hard to have a bad day if this superlative film is a part of it. I'm not much for lists, but I suppose if I were picking 10 films I could save or take to a desert island, PBS would absolutely make the cut.

CAMPELIA ZANONIA "MEXICAN FLAG"

Camelia zanonia "Mexican Flag", a member of the commelinaceae family, is one of my favorite tropical plants, but it is hard to come by and difficult to grow. I first saw this amazing beauty at the long gone, but legendary Fantastic Gardens in south Miami and had to have it. A small rooted plant was expensive, but I purchased and grew it successfully for a time. I have tried it over the years and grown it for time patches only to lose it, usually to winter cold or just weakness from its lack of green. It can rot very easily. It seems to want warm, humid, but relatively shady conditions. There is a wonderful speciman of it growing in the tropical houses at the NY Botanical Garden, perhaps, the largest edition of it I have seen. It crops up occasionally from some sources, but usually has to be propagated and is never cheap. It's the very kind of plant I wish could be worked on and even, perhaps, tissue-cultured for it is so lovely as to be irresistible to any plant lover who encounters it. But, if you do, beware that you need to be up for the challenge.

TROPICAL GARDENING

Besides a love of movies, another great passion of mine is tropical gardening. I have gardened since I was a kid and have always favored tropical things, even when we lived in the wicked north and, certainly, after re-settling in the south (Florida). Over the decades, I have tried a really wide range of tropical things, many with great success. Of course, there have been failures and difficulty; and I guess I have some strange genetic quirk; but if I love something, even if I is hard to grow, I keep trying and am slow to give up on any loved plant. There are certain plants I just grow while they flourish and, replace periodically when they don't. Happily, this group is in a minority. Many tropical plants are wonderfully easy to grow and very rewarding. Some give you blooms so often that living without them just seems somehow unthinkable.

CONTEMPORARY FILMS AND PAST TREASURES

One can argue that there aren't many movies today worth getting very excited about, but I do think every year has a few good, memorable films, and I will talk about those here, including such goodies as Away From Her with Julie Christie and also a few very enjoyable tv series, which, technically, aren't movies, but are today often far superior to what is coming into the theatres. There are great performances happening in television as well as in theatre films.

But, largely, here, I will probably concentrate on older movies, things I think more people need to discover and enjoy and great under-rated performances or other work connected to a film, which I feel has been under-appreciated.

Today with so much available, it is now much, much easier for anyone of any age to discover movie treasures, which were locked away and unavailable to so many people in earlier times. Often, a film was released once and after the original run was gone--until the dawn of tv. Now, there are so many means of finding and enjoying past work. Actually, we are very fortunate in this respect and many of us don't always take advantage of what is out there. No need to settle for some mindless, hot new release when there can be so much more rewarding stuff to consume our leisure time.

I am going to do som essays on some favorite films of mine as time and my schedule permit. Maybe, this approach will strike sparks with others, who can share what they love about great films.