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	The Entertainer by Asa Butcher
	$2,000 dollars an ounce by Asa Butcher
	Sand in my living room by Asa Butcher Heroic, grandiose, momentous, significant, tremendous, huge, vast and monumental are just a few of the synonyms suggested by my thesaurus when looking up the word 'epic', and I can declare, unflinchingly, that

	A Guilty Pleasure by Asa Butcher From the opening scene of Julie Andrews, swirling around on top of a grassy Alpine hilltop, belting out "The hills are alive…" to the Salzburg Music Festival audience all singing "Edelweiss", t
	Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter by Asa Butcher Some would say that Shakespeare in Love was a Best Picture tragedy, while others would argue it was a comedy worthy of the seven statuettes. You are now wondering into which category my allegiance falls, but th
	Hollywood's Big Top by Asa Butcher Regular readers of Ovi will have realised by now that I am a man on a movie mission and the goal is to review each of the 80 Academy Award Best Picture winners. This is a challenge that I have undertaken with enthusiasm
	Borgnine's brilliant butcher by Asa Butcher Last year I reviewed From Here to Eternity to honour Ernest Borgnine's 90th birthday, since it was his big screen debut, but I now admit that the film was my
	Refreshing the cinematic palette by Asa Butcher When you think of joint ventures between director Frank Capra and actor James Stewart the first film you usually pick is It's a Wonderful Life (1946), but that was actually their third an
	Mister Tibbs! by Asa Butcher In 1928 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed the very first Best Picture Academy Award to William A. Wellman's Wings. Eighty years later billions of viewers will be tuning in to discover
	Popeye and Cloudy by Asa Butcher The sad passing of Roy Scheider, aged 75, this month has prompted me to rewind 37 years to 1971 and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Four years before his acclaimed role in Jaw
	The Conscience of Mankind by Asa Butcher "In the words of General George C. Marshall, the American Secretary of State, "Mahatma Gandhi had become the spokesman for the conscience of mankind, a man who made humility and simple truth more powerful th
	Fontaine of Youth by Asa Butcher Following the recent passing of Deborah Kerr at 86 recently, it is warming to be reminded that there are still a few of the great leading ladies of the 1930s and 1940s remaining. Strangely, two of these surviving lea
	The Scorsese Snub - Ends! by Asa Butcher Martin Scorsese is a directorial genius. He has helmed at least one of everybody's top ten films and worked with most of the biggest names in Hollywood. Following his win at the Golden Globes for directing The Departed and ten other d
	No bucks, no Buck Rogers by Asa Butcher Before the famous Apollo missions began, NASA launched its space program with Project Mercury, which was the United States' first manned spaceflight program. Its simple aim was to put a man in orbit around the Ea
	Borgnine's big break by Asa Butcher Long before BASEketball , Airwolf, The Wild Bunch and The Dirty Dozen, Ernest Borgnine made his big screen debut in From Here