Public speaker, informal educator, and podcaster on film and pop culture history.
Lecture topics including but not limited to:
The Legacy of Alfred Hitchcock, The Beatles on Film, A Century of Sherlock, Gangster Movies, Happy 100th Marilyn, The History of the Movie Musical, James Dean 70 Years Later, Phantoms of the Opera, Remembering Robert Redford, Rock n’ Roll on Film, Set in Seattle, The 60’s Film Renaissance, Star Trek: Changing the Future from the Past, Time Travel, Universal Monsters, Women’s History Month Salute to Directors
Upcoming Events
Free Talk: History of the Movie Musical
The first commercial film to use sound, 1927’s The Jazz Singer, was in a sense a musical. Why did movies sing almost before they could talk, and what have movie […]
Seattle, WA 98103 United States
Free Talk: Universal Monster Movies!
Lon Chaney’s The Phantom of the Opera just turned 100. This Halloween, we’ll look back at how Universal turned a couple of Victorian novels into a genre juggernaut and revisit […]



