WHY OLD MOVIES?

by Frederick Bailey   Sitting in a screening room a couple of weeks ago, watching THE BICYCLE THIEF (1948), brought it home to me once again.  Something I first realized years ago: Movies are time machines. They can literally take us back in time to a place that existed before we were born.  And we…

HIPSTER MOVIES 101

by Pete Wassell I know.  How many times do we have to read a diatribe, a manifesto on the state of the Hipster?  “It’s been done!” they say…  Well, I haven’t done it.  So I’m gonna do it now. What is a Hipster?  That term has always been a bit cloudy to me.  I’m confident…