To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion,

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.