Roger Ebert, in his review for director John Badham’s Bird on a Wire, said any spectacle therein was an affectation, an unearned reward because we don’t believe the characters. Now with many decades of hindsight, he may have underestimated the chemistry its leads

As director David Fincher has said, the studio was selling a release date, not a movie.

Pulled from the pages of Colin Barrett’s short story collection Young Skins, Calm with Horses is as much about place as it is about people.

If there is one common motif to Christopher Nolan’s films, it is a feeling of forward propulsion. The music, the cinematography, the motion of our lead characters; so much of Nolan’s cinematic language has the motif of forward moving energy.

If there was ever any doubt to the power of nostalgia, James Cameron’s Titanic practically breathes it onto your face with its icy breath throughout its 194 minutes.

Steve McQueen should have been murdered by Charles Manson’s followers in August, 1969, but lucky for him he was an adulterous husband.