From Around the World in 80 Movies and its chapter for animal lovers, "The Misfits in Reno" features my lawnmowers, the neighborhood...

Relying on acceptance that “truth is stranger than fiction”, the number one Netflix show Tiger King gains much of its allure by just...

Celebrating the spring season with my action video starring backyard bunnies.

Hope to make it back for the babies this season! If not, I can armchair travel with my own Around the World in 80 Movies memories of...

FOCUS FEATURES KICKS OFF “MOVIE MONDAYS” WITH FREE FACEBOOK LIVESTREAMS OF CLASSIC FOCUS TITLES FOR FANS AT HOME Viewers of the...

Social distancing forced me to change one pastime where I screen dvds classes. This new adjustment inspired me to check out a program...

A few weeks before the movie Contagion turned into a streaming phenomenon, I re-watched my DVD of it, spurred by memories of a believable...

A stay in Ely led Stephen King to write his Desperation book and teleplay, but my travels there for the city's film festival showed...

From Debbie Anderson, personal assistant to Leo Buscaglia, author of the #5 bestselling book of the 1980s, Living, Loving and Learning:...

To rework the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman with the good fortune to...

Screen legend Max Von Sydow, who died today, earned his status through great work with Ingmar Bergman and a wealth of movies spanning...

With a current culture reboot, The Invisible Man more accurately qualifies as “The Invisible Man’s Girlfriend” by taking a twist on the...

Expectations get caught in an avalanche and slide away with the so-called comedy Downhill. Instead of the broad, character-driven laughs...

Harrison Ford fights the need for CGI computer effects with Call of the Wild when he takes off his shirt and shows off muscles popping in...

One of my first assignments as the area’s state film commissioner in 1987 involved driving the actor-producer Robert Conrad around the...

When Academy members chose their lineup of best movies from 2019, they faced another round of “Oscars so White” criticism—but not when it...

I felt lucky when Kirk Douglas came to Reno for his 1999 feature Diamonds where he played a former boxer who left a treasure here in...

With the the two big Oscar Best Picture predictors coming out from the producers and screen actors guilds, I'm thrilled to see SAG push...