Welcome to my 2nd effort at a blog.  I wish to thank those of you who told me that I should write something about my interest in movies....and those of you who recently remarked that it was nice to see writing again.
Believe it or not, it really meant a lot to me.  And also my daughter is taking a class in Film this semester.
I hope it only furthers her love of movies and has the impact that a similar class had with me over 30 years ago.

I think my love for film and movies (different, in case you didn't know) began when my father was in the US Navy and stationed in Guantanamo, Cuba.  All the movies were shown outside and on a weekly loop.
My friends and I would go every weekend to see the "latest" movie (very loose interpretation as most of the movies we saw were maybe a year or so old) being shown at the theatre nearest to where we lived.
I remember that was my introduction to movies like Kelly's Heroes and a relatively obscure horror film called
The Dunwich Horror (look it up--stayed with me for YEARS). But it was really during my college years when I took a course called Film as Literature to get a stupid elective course that my love for movies expanded.  I was introduced to foreign films like The 400 Blows & The Bicycle Thief and the works of a master like Akira Kurosawa.  I learned that you can watch a movie with subtitles and not be bored or distracted because of it.  I also learned that you can enjoy a movie thts a lousy movie---because its lousy.
So as we procede, I'll give you some of my movie lists.  My top 20 movies of alltime.  My list.  Not the critics.  Mine.  I'll give you a top 10 bad movies that are fun to watch.  And, at long last, I will provide what a friend has asked for seemingly forever as I will reveal a list of my top 10 WORST films.  I mean movies that are bad that you should hate.  My movies will come in no particular order.  Sometimes I'll recommend a movie I just happened to catch on t.v. one afternoon.  Today for example, I watched Back to the Future.
What a great movie!  How great was Michael J Fox back in those days?  I mean everything the guy touched turned to gold!  Geez, even Teen Wolf was a pretty good movie for God's sake! And then I watched Bowfinger, which is a really underrated Steve Martin & Eddie Murphy movie that absolutely skewers the movie industry.  Terrific movie.  My go to site for all things movies is IMDB.com, which in case you've never been there stands for the International Movie DataBase.  I will tell you what they give each film I mention and will tell you if I think that rating is too high, too low or spot on. They rank their films on a scale of 1-10.   As an example, Back to the Future got 8.5 out of 10 in their ratings--which I think is pretty spot on.  And Bowfinger got a 6.4, which I think is a little low.
Here's my first review, and keep in mind....I'm not looking to write War & Peace in my review.  I want to tell you if a movie is any good, and whether you should see it.  I figure you have a long way to go, and a short time to get there (thank you Jerry Reed).  So the first movie I'm going to look at is Martin Scorcese's Casino.  First of all, anytime you start off with Scorcese & DeNiro....you're pretty much good to go right there.  You add in Joe Pesci playing a crazy mob guy, and its all gravy after that.  Throw in a career best performance from Sharon Stone and less I forgot....Don Rickles as DeNiro's casino manager. DeNiro plays Sam "Ace" Rothstein, who is a gambling savant and is given a casino to run by the mob.  He excels at one thing and that is making money.  His weakness is that he falls for the worst woman possible.  Also features James Woods, Alan King, Frank Vincent (is it required in a mob film to have Frank Vincent in a supporting role?) and in my favorite casting....John Bloom.  In case you were not aware, John Bloom is also known as Joe Bob Briggs, advocate of all things drive in movies and a really funny writer. This is an awesome movie with terrific performances all around.  My only complaint about the film, and its a really minor one....is that by this point Joe Pesci was starting to look a bit long in the tooth for his role.  Oh, and be aware.  There is more than one scene that will have you squirming from the violence.  It got a 8.2 and I see no problem with that.
Sharon Stone got nominated for an Academy Award for her performance....and the film probably should've gotten more nominations.  Great film.