Stories By Dan Fields
Movies & TV
Oscars 2012: Slighted Soundtracks And Fantasy Scores
October 21, 2025Acting, directing, and writing awards are the most popular targets for discussion, but there were more...
Disability
The Weekly Listicle: Shameless Oscar Bait
October 17, 2025If Oscar bait works on you, then you'll treasure the film all your life and hate...
Movies
Movie Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
October 16, 2025Most of the actual “spy stuff” that goes on is hidden even from the audience, and...
Movies
Think Of The Children! Family Films Rule 2011
October 14, 2025It is heartening to see so much well-crafted entertainment geared toward whole families in a single...
Movies
Who’s Laughing Now? – Film and TV Comedy in 2011
October 14, 2025And so the clock has run out on 2011. We had some major comedy misfires on...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: The Stage On Screen
October 11, 2025As the holiday season builds to its peak, we movie watchers face a release pattern that...
Thrillers
May Day! May Day! It’s Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Tree
October 9, 2025Early press for The Wicker Tree has not been overwhelmingly good, but one might say it...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: New Year’s Eve
October 9, 2025If you've shamelessly dropped the dollars to hire a full cast of well-known stars, why not...
Best Books
The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17
October 6, 2025Censors save the NC-17 rating for extra special cases, and in practice it feels like much...
Movies & TV
The Weekly Listicle: Celebrating Monstrous Matchups
October 4, 2025"Vampires versus werewolves" is only one of the time-tested feuds that film and television have offered...