Jeff Simon

So what exactly did Carpenter DO in the original film of “Halloween” that has been so influential and inspirational since the film was made?

“Somehow, I had gotten it into my head back then that the image of scruffy, Boho Bob from Greenwich Village – the composer of “protest songs” and heir of Woody Guthrie – was a commercial fraud, and the real guy was a careerist who preferred a suit and tie,” writes Jeff Simon.

We now have a lot of the details of how Quentin Tarantino came to be Quentin Tarantino because in his 60th year, he is publishing a combination memoir-essay collection – and anthology of improvs and commentaries with a hilariously terrible title, “Cinema Speculation.”

The Bills have managed to give America a bracing look at the reality of professional football and, indeed, of football itself. And while doing so, they’ve shown a magnificent amount of soul and grace and empathy in dealing with it, Simon says.

Simon: ” ‘Tar’s’ phenomenal accuracy stunned me. Forget personalities. The film’s immersion in the world of classical music is total, and magnificently precise.”

“The reason we now have Zombie Oscars in the 21st century is that we also have a zombie movie industry,” writes Jeff Simon.

“To put it in the simplest way, I would urge people who have even tangential interest in any of them to investigate them as thoroughly as their time permits,” Simon

Move over “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie.” The latest film from writer, director and producer Martin Scorsese — “Killers of the Flower Moon” — might be the best movie of 2023 and could run away with multiple Oscars when awards season approaches. Co-host Bruce Miller, who got an early screening of the film that opens October 20 after its brief run at Cannes earlier this year, shares his impressions of the film and where it stacks up with other Scorsese classics that featured Robert De Niro and Leonard…

Foster is a model of Spencer Tracy’s prescription for the movie actor’s art: acting in front of a camera but never in a way that the audience can catch you doing it, Simon writes.

Stewart “is perhaps the best and smartest media critic that television itself has developed,” Simon writes.