Christmas time brings a plethora of family movies, but it’s also the time of year for the production companies to roll out their Oscar contenders. These films are generally serious dramas involving mature subject matter or important political statements. Usually …
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 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 …