Category: Movie Review

By:  Jimmy Don Ventura Stockton Telegram-Dispatch Movie Reviewer | Captain My Captain Blog Contributor The Gospel According to Ralphie Some folks remember the holidays by the smell of pine needles or Grandma’s stuffing. Me? I remember it by the sound of the Old Man cussing at his car. That’s why A Christmas Story (1983) hits me…

By Jimmy Don Ventura, Movie Reviewer of the Stockton Telegram-Dispatch and Special Contributor to the CMC Blog Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Jimmy Don, this is a Thanksgiving movie, not a car movie.” And you’d be right—except for the fact that every single beat of John Hughes’ 1987 classic depends on cars either breaking…

Jimmy Don Ventura’s Monthly Movie Review: McQ (1974) Stockton Telegram-Dispatch | Captain My Captain Blog You can’t spell “John Wayne” without “JW,” and you can’t spell “JW” without thinking of whiskey, wide-brimmed hats, and a face carved out of a sandstone bluff. But in 1974, the Duke holstered his six-shooters, parked the horse at the hitchin’…

A tale of tail lights, ambition, and corporate varmints By Jimmy-Don Ventura, Special Contributor to the CMC Blog I’ll tell you right now, Tucker: The Man and His Dream is the only movie I’ve ever watched that made me think Detroit could’ve used a little more Fort Stockton in it. Preston Tucker was a man…

“Hell Hath No Fury Like a Plymouth Scorned”Movie Review by Jimmy Don Ventura, CMC Auto Movie Critic Despite my editor, The Captain, insisting I cover Fast X, I opted instead for a film with more chrome, more menace, and fewer people punching submarines with their bare hands. We’re going full tilt back to 1983 for…