Warning: This review contains spoilers! My life changed forever that summer evening in 1977 when my parents took my brother and me to the Côte-des-Neiges cinema to see the original Star Wars before it was re-christened A New Hope. George Lucas’ cinematic classic became a childhood obsession that has lasted well into adulthood. The space […]
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The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies by Ben Fritz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, $38)
“Part of the reason the movie business was struggling throughout the 2010’s was its leaders couldn’t adjust to the fact that they were no longer the center of the pop-culture universe, around which all other media orbited. Movies still had an important place, of course, but they no longer had the first and foremost claim […]
Why? Because We Still Like You by Jennifer Armstrong (Grand Central Publishing, $28.99)
By Stuart Nulman In memory of the recent passing of Annette Funicello at the age of 70, I thought of reprinting a review that originally appeared in the West End Times nearly three years ago, “Why? Because We Still Like You”, an interesting book about the classic kids’ TV show “The Mickey Mouse […]


