Being a college student is easy. Getting in is the hard part.

When you’re watching a movie about a con, there’s always a nervousness and unease in the back of your mind that maybe you’re getting conned too.

The moon is lots of things. A target of conquest, something scary, and even a symbol of isolation.

Like war, prison is the setting for a LOT of movies.

There’s perhaps no real life subject so ready-made for the screen as war.

It’s kinda like soccer. But with ice skates. And it’s actually fun to watch.

There are movies that sound like they’re about submarines, but then you watch them and find out they’re not.

As one of the only three real sports – the other two being bull fighting and mountaineering of course, at least according to Ernest Hemingway (or Ken Purdy or Barnaby Conrad, depending on whom you believe) – motor sports attracts some dynamic and colorful characters.

I assume that just about everyone who grew up in the 1980’s is familiar with the video for the A-ha song “Take on Me.”

A lot of movies owe a conceptual debt to Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit, and its most famous line “Hell is other people.” Nothing can get under your skin like someone who makes it impossible for you to ignore your own flaws and shortcomings.