My whole family enjoys movies. Classics, comedies, action-adventures, romances, dramas, thrillers, and silly satires are all in our library. I have done my best to make sure my sons both received a thorough education in cinema, and I had a …
Have you ever watched a movie, formed an opinion about it, watched it again—maybe several years later—and wondered, “What was I thinking?” Maybe you hated it the second time. Maybe you loved it. Either way, you completely reversed your outlook …
September has begun, and for the rest of the year, it seems, everything will revolve around kids and family events. Back-to-school, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the turning foliage, the first snow—it all screams family activities. I always get nostalgic at this …
Some movies are just too good to watch only once. Some lines are so pivotal that they are not only quoted over and over, but even the misquotes become cliché. Last week we watched Casablanca for about the eleven-hundredth time. …
When I read a book, it doesn’t take me long to cast the “movie” that plays out in my mind. A few choice adjectives and verbs, a page or two of dialog, and I get a fairly clear picture of …