Author Archives: Mark DuPré

About Mark DuPré

Retired (associate) pastor at a Christian church. Retired film professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Husband for nearly 50 years to the lovely and talented Diane. Father to three children and father-in-law to three more amazing people. I continue some ministry duties even though retired from the pastoral staff position. Right now I'm co-writing a book, co-writing a serious musical drama, and am half-way through writing (on my own a month-long devotional.

Oscar Predictions 2026

Posted on March 12, 2026 by Mark DuPré

This year is one of the most—and least—predictable Academy Awards seasons in history. I’m not entering a contest this year and therefore have little investment in who ends up with the gold statue. But since some folks ask, here we … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amy Madigan, Best Casting, f1, Frankenstein, Golden, Hamnet, Jesse Buckley, KPop Demon Hunters, Michael B. Jordan, One Battle After Another, Oscar nominations 2026, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn, Sentimental Value, Sinners, The Perfect Neighbor, Train Dreams, Weapons | Leave a comment

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Posted on March 3, 2026 by Mark DuPré

A child molester-murderer is on the loose. A city is terrified, and mothers are keeping children close. Police, who are too many times lazy and distracted, finally focus on the case. The underground syndicate also wants to find the murderer, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged A Free Soul, Casablanca, film, Fritz Lang, horror, lietmotiv, Lionel Barrymore, Looney Tunes, M, movie-reviews, movies, Peter Lorre, police procedural, reviews, serial killer, Sophia Loren, The Women, thriller | Leave a comment

Oscar Show Wishes

Posted on February 26, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Every year the Oscar show leaves me wondering why, again, they forgot to ask me how to make it better (lol). Of course, I realize the show’s structure for this year is locked in at this point, but in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film-Related Articles | Tagged Academy Awards, Adrian Brody, Best Song, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Rock, Diane Warren, film, In Memoriam, life, Oscar Hall of Fame, Oscars, Rob Lowe, Snow White, To Dream the Impossible Dream, Will Smith, writing | Leave a comment

“Wuthering Heights” (2026)

Posted on February 20, 2026 by Mark DuPré

“Wuthering Heights” is a gorgeous looking fetid fever-dream that takes one too many turns toward the twisted and perverse in a story already full of darkness. It’s a spicy paperback come to pulsating and regrettable life. Think gilding the lily, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged "Adolescence", "Wuthering Heights", Cathy, Charlotte Mellington, Emerald Fennell, emily-bronte, Gone with the Wind, Heathcliff, Hong Chau, Jacob Elordi, John Barrymore, Leslie Howard, Margot Robbie, Marie Anthoinette, Martin Clunes, Norma Shearer, Owen. Cooper, Romeo and Juliet, Sofia Coppolla, The Wale, Wuthering Heights | Leave a comment

Blue Moon

Posted on February 18, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Blue Moon is a 2025 small, focused film that addressed that great musical theater moment when “Rodgers and Hart” died, and “Rodgers and Hammerstein” was born, and its effects on Hart. We’re talking the great composer/lyricist team of Richard Rodgers … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged A Complete Unkknown, Andrew Scott, Before Midnight, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Blue Moon, Bobby Cannavale, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Carousel, Dancing on the Ceiling, E.G White, Elizabeth Weiland, Ethan Hawke, Falling in Love with Love, Ferrari, George Hill, George Roy Hill, Jonah Lees, Lorenz Hart, Margaret Qualley, Maria, Mickey Rooney, My Funny Valentine, My Heart Stood Still, Oklahoma!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Linklater, Richard Rodgers, Sardi's, South Pacitic, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Stephen Sondheim, Ten Cents a Dance, The King and I, The Lady is a Tramp, The Sound of Music, The Sting, Tom Drake, Where or When, Words and Music | Leave a comment

The Lost Squadron (1932)

Posted on February 13, 2026 by Mark DuPré

The Lost Squadron is a pre-Code* melodrama/buddy movie/action film/romance/murder film, and yes, the film is as pieced together and strange as that description sounds. The plot is an easy and straightforward one at the beginning but then it takes some … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Cimarron, Coming Home, David O. Selznick, Dawn Patrol, Erich von Stroheim, George Archainbaud, Greed, Hell's Angels, Joel McCrea, King Kong, La Grande Illusion, Mary Astor, Pre-Code, Richard Dix, RKO, Roger Armstrong, Sunset Boulevard, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Parade, The Great Lie, The Lost Squadron, The Roading Twenties, What Price Hollywood?, Wings | Leave a comment

Avatar: Fire and Ash and Mercy

Posted on January 31, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Within a short period of time, I saw a $400,000,000 behemoth of a film, and right after, a short and narratively tight $60,000,000 film. I enjoyed the smaller film. The first, of course, is the third installment of the Avatar … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Amanda Wilcer, Avatar: Fire and Ice, Avatar: The Way of Water, Chris Pratt, Dances with Wolves, Enemy of the State, James Cameron, Mercy, Minority Report, movies, Pamdora, Rebecca Ferguson, Rick Java, Studio 54 | Leave a comment

An Unfortunate Remake: High and Low (1963) / Highest 2 Lowest (2025)

Posted on January 17, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Remakes have a reputation of being inferior to the original. That’s not always true; there are many good-to-great films that are remakes. Some of the best include: The Maltese Falcon ((1941), a remake of the 1931 film of the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Film-Related Articles, Newer films, Older Films | Tagged A Star is Born, American Fiction, Anthony Ramos, Ben-Hur, David King, Denzel Washington, Diddy, Do the Right Thing, Fanfare d'Amour, film, Gondo, High and Low, Highest 2 Lowest, His Girl Friday, Hitchcock, Infernal Affairs, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Japan, Jay-Z, Jeffrey Wright, Liam Neeson, Love Affair, Manhattan, Mariah Carey, Marlon Brando, movies, Oceans 11, Psycho, Rashoman, Rosie Perez, Samuel L. Jackson, Satan Met a Lady, Sean Combs, Seven Samourai, Some Like it Hot, Spike Lee, The Blob, The Departed, The Fly, The Front Page, The Godfather, The Maltese Falcon, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Ten Commandments, The Thomas Crown Affair, Throne of Blood, Tom Cruise, Toshiro Mifune, True Grit, Westworld, Whitney Houston, Yojimbo, Yutaka Sada | Leave a comment

The Oscar “Consolation Prize” Awards: Making Up for Past Mistakes

Posted on January 12, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Film awards season is upon us officially with the Golden Globe awards, and while the various minor award-giving groups seem to be multiplying like shmoos, there is just one Great Prize—the Academy Awards. There is an annual cottage industry working … Continue reading →

Posted in Film-Related Articles | Tagged A Complete Unknown, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Single Man, A Streetcar Named Desire, Academy Awards, Alan Arkin, Anthony Hopkins, Apocalypse Now, Arthur, awards, Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwyck, Beginners, Ben Johnson, Best Actor, Best Actreee, Best Actress, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Bette Davis, BUtterfield 8, Call Me By Your Name, Casey Affleck, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Chicago, Chocolat, Christopher Plummer, City Slickers, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Cleopatra, Cocoon, Colin Firth, Coquette, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dangerous, Daniel Day-Lewis, Don Ameche, Elizabeth Taylor, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargp, Fences, film, Gangs of New York, George Burns, George Clooney, Golden Globes, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Grace Moore, Henry Fonda, Hold Back the Dawn, It Happened One Night, Jack Palance, James Steward, Jerry Maguire, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Fontaine, John Gielgud, John Houseman, John Mills, Jose Ferrer, Juliet Binoche, Kate Winslet, La Vie en Rose, Laurence Olivier, Life is Beautiful, Little Children, Little Miss Sunshine, Louis B. Mayer, Manchester by the Sea, Marion Cotillard, Marlon Brando, Marty Supreme, Mary Pickford, Meryl Streep, Michael Clayton, Moulin Rouge!, movies, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Nicole Kidman, Norma Shearer, Of Human Bondage, Olivia De Havilland, On Golden Pond, On the Waterfront, One Night of Love, Oscar, Oscars, Raging Bull, Raintree County, Rebecca, Renee Zellweger, Robert De Niro, Robert Donat, Robert Duvall, Ryan’s Daughter, Sophie's Choice, Suddenly Last Summer, Sunset Boulevard, Suspicion, Syriana, Tender Mercies, The Artist, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, The Broadway Melody, The Cider House Rules, The Descendants, The English Patient, The Father, The Godfather, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Santini, The Hours, The King's Speech, The King's Speechj, The Last Picture Show, The Little Foxes, The Paper Chase, The Philadelpia, The Pianist, The Reader, The Silence of the Lambs, The Social Network, The Sunshine Boys, Timothy Chalamet, Titanic, Up in the Air, Viola Davis, Vivien Leigh, William Holden | Leave a comment

Nefarious

Posted on January 8, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Dedicated to Greg Blossom, who insisted I watch this film. Imagine C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters as a film. That’s the brief but deadly accurate description of 2024’s Nefarious. The film is from Believe Entertainment, producers of the God’s Not Dead … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Believe Entertainment, C.S. Lewis, Do You Believe?, film, Glenn Beck, God's Not Dead, horror, movie, movies, Nefarious, reviews, Sean Partrick Flanery, The Screwtape Letters | Leave a comment

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