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.
A Study in Disney: ‘Fantasia’ (1940)
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: ‘Pinocchio’ (1940)
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...
Mass (2021)
There is a vibrating tension under almost every minute of Fran Kranz’s Mass which exists entirely based on its subject matter. I walked into the...
A Study in Disney: ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ (1937)
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...
Passing (2021)
If we think now of the new visibility sprung from outward protests like Black Lives Matter and #oscarssowhite, it may be important to note that...
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Back, long ago, when I reviewed Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, I made the statement that Home Alone wasn't exactly a series that you could...
Dune: Part One (2021)
I had no reason to ever think that anyone could bring about a film version of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” that would do justice to his...
