Hey, everybuddy! Welcome to the 2015 Signal Watch Awards, or, as we're calling them here - The Kryptos!  We've named the awards a...

When I came back to the site at the end of 2014, I picked up in 2015 with enough hubris and energy to decide to write about each movie...

The movie neither begins nor ends on New Years.  Instead, it's the morbid spectacle of New Years Eve in the Desmond mansion that'...

So, we just finished Goldfinger (1964) , and I may have mixed myself a Vesper halfway through. A Vesper is: 3 parts Gordon's Gi...

These were the tickets I'd bought a while back when I found out I was responsible for getting my family out to see Star Wars: The Fo...

As I mentioned in my chat on Dr. No , Jamie got us the "50 Years of Bond" BluRay boxed set for Christmas.  We're fans of 0...

It's been so long since I've seen Dr. No (1962) , and I remembered so little of it, that I'm calling this the first time I...

Ah, Return of the Jedi (1983) .  The much-debated finale to the original trilogy, where people get mad that the Empire is defeated by a ...

It seems like Holiday Inn (1942) used to be the Bing Crosby Christmas movie of choice for television, but the past few years, probably ...

This is the holy mother of Star Wars movies, and it's always a funny one to watch, because I don't disagree, but it's a mov...

Due to the surge and servers blowing up, etc...  when the pre-sale began, I didn't buy tickets for opening weekend of Star Wars: The...

where the hell are Leia's sleeves? I believe I've already done a fair job already talking Star Wars Episode IV in context in ...

I admit to not having watched too many/ any of the classic Spencer Tracy/ Katherine Hepburn pairings.  It's not that I don't lik...

I'm at the tail end of low-grade but extremely annoying cold.  Today it settled in my chest as this loud, dry cough.  So, I've b...

Before typing up anything, I had to re-read NathanC's take  and Gerry's comments on Tomorrowland (2015).   Both are parents, bo...

Well. I sure as heck am not bothering with a plot synopsis on this one.  If you're old enough to read, you've seen this one. ...

I think the first time I saw Miracle on 34th Street (1947)  was in high school when some teacher or other was trying to kill time before...

Yeah, yeah.  Someone was going to go see this, so it might as well have been me.  SimonUK and I talk each other into all sorts of things...

Based on an Ernest Hemingway novel, To Have and Have Not (1945) stars Bogart and Bacall as two folks avoiding the war who stumble acros...

My understanding is that, for a span of years, It's a Wonderful Life (1946) fell into some sort of legal limbo and the film entered...