Author: Matt

  • “There Will Be Blood”

    Since I saw him first in “My Left Foot,” Daniel Day-Lewis has become my favorite actor, Al Pacino a close second. DeNiro is fading fast as he has lost his sure-footing at least in my eyes these past ten years. I recall Olivier’s comment that a good or great actor…

  • “Where Do We Go from Here?”

    I believe this was the first movie I ever saw as a human being; vaguely, as I recall it, for I saw it in the 40s, a series of episodes in time, from the American Revolution…to…I cannot remember. As we grow older, as we age, the past in a cliche…

  • “Black Narcissus” and other films of note

    I just got a 50 inch HDTV. Both my fiancee, what an odd word at my age, and my son, Jordan, 31, have urged me to make the purchase…so I have made merry. When Ben Hur makes his big move in the hippodrome, the chariot wheels brutally cross my bed. Films such…

  • 2008 Allbooks Review Editor’s Choice Award Winner

    For the second year in a row I have won this award, once for The i Tetralogy. of course, I am elated and surprised. I had no idea that this small book of stories had such strength to it. It is a collection that spans 33 years. I learned how…