Schickel, a 20-year film critic for Time, analyzes his obsession with movies vis-à-vis his own life. He discovered the "seductive" allure of cinema at age five and was hooked. Schickel's is a touching ...

Ivan R. Dee, 336 pp., $27.50 IN HIS MEMOIR “Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip,” Richard Schickel confesses that he became a “cinemaddict” at age five, when he was taken to a neighborhood theater to see ...

Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memories and World War II by Richard Schickel (Ivan R. Dee, 329 pages $27.50) and 10 Sure Signs that a Movie Character is Doomed and other surprising movie lists ...