Movie Review

Posted on May 02, 2016

As far as filmmaking goes, it's a deadest rule that you never want to put style over substance. Syrup is delicious...

Posted on April 10, 2016

In the last couple of years, the DC Cinematic Universe has been on the painful side of a serious butt whooping. While Batm...

Posted on February 21, 2016

There are a lot of phrases that can be used to describe The Witch: horrifying, hideous, cruel, masterful. But there&rs...

Posted on January 16, 2016

A long time ago in galaxy far far away…. thus begins Star Wars: The Force Awakens, arguably the single most ant...

Posted on December 18, 2015

There are very few legends, ghost stories, and folk tales that haven't been mined for material by now, making it a...

Posted on December 10, 2015

It's been 40 years since Rocky Balboa first stepped into the ring, creating what is almost certainly the greatest...

Posted on November 23, 2015

Can we all just pause for a moment and realize how nuts is that Spectre is the 24th film in the James Bond franchise? ...

Posted on October 15, 2015

Cinema has a long history of making movies with poor suckers getting stuck in unfortunate places. 127 Hours had...

Posted on September 20, 2015

In recent years, M. Night Shyamalan has become a bit of a joke. After the three-part career suicide that was The Happe...

Posted on September 05, 2015

The Last House on the Left. Scream. The Serpent and the Rainbow. A Nightmare on Elm Street-- all masterpieces by Wes...

Posted on August 30, 2015

Sinister 2 has, at least momentarily, messed me up. There are two scenes that I know for a fact, I'm not getting o...

Posted on August 15, 2015

Sometimes, what could be considered an average film at best is made significantly better by a small factor. Maybe it&r...

Posted on August 08, 2015

"Resurrection of F" might just be the perfect Dragon Ball film. A love letter to every boy who grew up watching...

Posted on July 31, 2015

If I had to put a bet on any Marvel film to come out a failure, it would’ve been Ant-Man. Directorial conflicts,...

Posted on June 19, 2015

Inside Out is an exceedingly rare kind of film, one that only comes out once or twice a decade. Like Almost Famous, It...

From the Bench: With Hoops Season in Ful...

There’s nothing more exciting on the sports front than a packed house that produces that charged up atmosphere that fo...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Time Travel: Some Mid-1980s Fun with Cit...

See anyone you know? This photo, believed to be from the mid-1980's, shows a group of young city boys and one of...

Posted by Dick Duez
City Faces in Different Places

This week's Bridgeport City Face is Alfred Isch, who has his own version of Santa's workshop in his home - year-ro...

Posted by Julie Perine
Off the Shelf: Adult Winter Reading Prog...

Needing a little inspiration to get started on those New Year’s resolutions? The library has...

Posted by Sharon Saye
The Grapevine: Praying for End to the Pa...

If you are watching national news, you have seen all the emphasis that has been put on the effect that the pandemic is...

Posted by Rosalyn Queen
ToquiNotes: After 40-Plus Years of Servi...

The name was right even if the first profession was not for Bridgeport’s Stan Cutright. “I was a welder...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Wellness Watch: COVID Q and A Session wi...

As we spring into 2022, Connect-Bridgeport launches a new blog, concentrating on all things health and wel...

Posted by Julie Perine