Sometimes old movies are inspiring. I'm considering the purchase of a fixer-upper- a house that needs renovation. I thought of the work ...

August 25, 2018 marks 100 years since composer Leonard Bernstein's birth. Known for many projects, including his composition of award...

Crazy Rich Asians (2018) opened on August 15th to great fanfare. Based on Kevin Kwan 's best-selling novel and starring Constance Wu a...

  Google Doodle celebrates Academy Award-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe (1899-1976) today May 25, 2018. Howe's work i...

Here's another post from the draft files of this old blog. This one comes from about 2013. I never published it... Until now. As you k...

Pouring through the draft section of my blog, I find a few bits and bobs of ideas here and there that seem amusing, tonally odd, or incomple...

From the Draft file folder of this old blog, I find bits and pieces of unfinished ideas. Here is one about classic movie makeovers, which wo...

Comedian and filmmaker Jerry Lewis died Sunday August 20, 2017. Here's a roundup of Lewis articles featured here at Java's Journey. ...

The Heiress (1949) is an Academy-Award- winning adaptation of a Broadway play and a novel by Henry James. The film features Olivia de ...

Many might recall Bob Dorian , the host of the television channel American Movie Classics back in the 1980s and 1990s. AMC predates Turn...