The 1931 western Cimarron is on a short list of Oscar's most obscure best picture winners, and in a year that included such award-el...

dis·si·dent noun a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state. I see that Google agreed to set fi...

Of all the people I've covered in this blog over the last fifteen years, no one has fallen farther in my esteem than Woody Allen. No...

I know some of you are big fans of A Clockwork Orange . I wish I shared your enthusiasm. It's not that the film expects me to root for...

In between binge-eating and binge-napping, Katie-Bar-The-Door and I spent our Thanksgiving holidays binge-watching Aaron Sorkin's The Ne...

We here at the Monkey recently stumbled across this long-out-of-print audiobook version of Hunter S. Thompson's classic exercise in Gonz...

I'm giving Alabama the benefit of the doubt and assuming that when they saw the name "Moore" on the ballot, they thought they ...

Yesterday, Katie-Bar-The-Door and I finally got around to seeing writer-director Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster, Dunkirk , in 70...

America had a nice run — 240 years of top-flight democracy is better than most countries, and only one civil war! Okay, so now we're ...

Almost missed another fun-time movie quiz from Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule . 1) Best movie of 2016 I liked Hell or High Water...