This week kicks off the beginning of the holiday movie season. Every year about this time we see a new crop of Christmas-themed movies for children and families. The networks also bring out the holiday classics. Christmas movies are so …
I love movies! I do. From the opening sequence of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, my very first movie outing, I was hooked. Forty years later, I still spend a considerable slice of my life watching, talking about, analyzing, quoting, and …
My best friend and I were thirteen and fourteen years old. Our parents were out of town and we were spending the night at her house, being watched by her older sister, who had a date that particular Friday night. …
My husband hates musicals. Okay, maybe “hate” is a strong word. My husband says that he strongly dislikes movie musicals. I think this is strange, primarily because he is a singer. He’s not just a shower singer, or the guy …
This week I watched a couple of movies from the ‘50s that made me think twice about the history of woman. The first was Rocketship X-M, from 1950, and the second was This Island Earth, from 1954. Both films featured …