Sidney Poitier, who passed away earlier this month, became the first Black actor ever to win a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a handyman helping out a bunch of nuns in the desert.
Category Archives: Jerry Goldsmith
HOOSIERS (1986)
As March Madness continues in Indiana, we revisit this 1980s piece of “Pepperidge Farm buncombe” that’s somehow effective despite basically nothing that happens off a basketball court working at all.
CHINATOWN (1974)
The definitive neo-noir, a movie I love, now inextricably linked with the crimes of its director.
ALIEN (1979)
A masterpiece of a horror movie. IN SPACE!
MULAN (1998)
The original, animated Mulan stands out as maybe the most “grown up” movie of the “Disney Renaissance.”
Movie Valhalla 