The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Author Archive: Jerry Roberts
Jerry Roberts is a film critic and operator of two websites, Armchair Cinema and Armchair Oscars.
The Batman (2022)
It occurred to me about three-quarters of the way through The Batman that I may be finished with this character. There is simply nothing else that...
A Study in Disney: ‘Chicken Little’ (2005)
Disney is as much a part of our lives as love and death. It’s wrapped around us, and not just in our childhood. There are...
A Study in Disney: ‘Brother Bear’ (2003)
Brother Bear may be the most beautifully made animated film to ever flounder under the weight of a badly written story. Here is a movie...
Hollywood Shuffle (1987) | The Pod Bay Doors Movie Podcast, Episode
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The 94th Annual Academy Awards (2022) | The Pod Bay Doors Movie Podcast
This episode, Doug and Jerry talk about the ten Best Picture nominees for the 94th Annual Academy Awards. There is some good, some bad and...
A Study in Disney: ‘Treasure Planet’ (2002)
Pretty much the universal criticism that follows Treasure Planet is based around the ill-advised concept of relocating Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel “Treasure Island” into...
Love & Basketball (2000) | The Pod Bay Doors Movie Podcast, Episode #230
For our first entry in Black History Month (but could double for Woman's History Month, if you like) is Gina Prince-Bythewood's writer/directorial debut Love &...
