Stories By Dan Fields
Movies
What Is Best In Life? Not Conan 3D, Barring A Miracle
August 4, 2025Borne on the crest of the wind, I hear already the lamentation of women. Women whose...
Best Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Three Rings Of Circus Movie Mayhem!
August 3, 2025The circus is a complicated enterprise, and its symbolic value in storytelling has many faces. It...
Art
2011: Armageddon Comes Early To Hopeless Film Geeks
July 31, 2025Before the year is out, we may see all the weirdest and most controversial filmmakers of...
Movies
Movie Review: Your Highness
July 30, 2025If only the makers of the film would publish something -- perhaps as a DVD extra...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Hop
July 29, 2025Perhaps the best way to take Hop is as an illustration of why Easter movies never...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Weekly Listicle: Keeping It Simple With A ROBO-POCALYPSE!
July 28, 2025This week, the big opener of note is the outrageous fantasy action epic Sucker Punch, which...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Lincoln Lawyer
July 26, 2025Michael Connelly is a very popular author, but it is easy to dismiss a film adapted...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: On Adapting The Classics
July 23, 2025With the arrival of Jane Eyre from Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, we see another standard...
Movies & TV
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
July 21, 2025Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Movies
Oscars 2011: A Beaten Critic Speaks
July 19, 2025Congratulations to Julia Rhodes for her excellent Oscar picks, which leveled my own, 15 to 9....




